Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Adoption Act 1984 - SECT 27

Effect of cessation or suspension of approved agency

27. Effect of cessation or suspension of approved agency

Where a welfare organization ceases to be an approved agency or the approval
of a welfare organization as an approved agency is suspended-

   (a)  all records and other documents held by it or under its control
        relating to the arrangement or negotiation of adoptions shall become
        the property of the Secretary or, with the approval of the Secretary
        where the welfare organization has entered into an agreement with an
        approved agency that the approved agency be the successor of the
        welfare organization, of that approved agency;

   (b)  where the principal officer of the first-mentioned approved agency
        was, immediately before the cessation or suspension, the guardian of a
        child under this Act, the Secretary or principal officer of the
        approved agency that is the successor of the first-mentioned approved
        agency, as the case may be, becomes the guardian of that child upon
        the cessation or suspension; and

   (c)  the arrangements or negotiations being undertaken by the
        first-mentioned approved agency immediately before the cessation or
        suspension shall be continued by the Secretary or principal officer of
        the approved agency that is the successor of the first-mentioned
        approved agency, as the case may be.