Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Adoption Act 1984 - SECT 66

Recognition of Australasian adoptions

66. Recognition of Australasian adoptions



(1) For the purposes of the laws of Victoria, the adoption of a person
(whether before or after the commencement of this Act) in another State, or in
a Territory, in accordance with the law of that State or Territory has, so
long as it has not been rescinded under the law in force in that State or
Territory, the same effect as an adoption order made in Victoria, and has no
other effect.





(2) This section, as in force immediately before the commencement of section 7
of the Adoption (Amendment) Act 2000, continues to apply in respect of the
adoption of a person in New Zealand before that commencement.