Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Adoption Act 1984 - SECT 22

Secretary may grant or refuse application

22. Secretary may grant or refuse application

The Secretary may, as the Secretary thinks fit, grant or refuse an application
under section 21 and in particular, without in any way limiting the generality
of the foregoing, may refuse any application if it appears to the Secretary
that the applicant is not a welfare organization within the meaning of section
21 or is not suited to carrying on the activity of making arrangements with a
view to the adoption of children, having regard to all relevant
considerations, including the qualifications, experience, character and number
of the persons taking part, or proposing to take part, in the management or
control of the organization, or engaged or proposed to be engaged, on behalf
of the organization, in the making of arrangements with a view to the adoption
of children.