Western Australian Consolidated Acts

ADOPTION ACT 1994 - SECT 16

16 .         Duties of CEO as to birth parents

        (1)         The CEO is to, if requested by a birth parent or prospective birth parent who is thinking about relinquishing her or his child for adoption — 

            (a)         provide the persons known to the CEO as the child’s birth parents with information on the matters, and in the manner, set out in clause 1(a) of Schedule 1;

            (b)         provide counselling services to the birth parents;

            (c)         assist the birth parents to make arrangements for the child to be cared for;

            (d)         before the revocation period expires, provide the birth parents with such opportunities for access to the child, as the CEO thinks appropriate;

            (e)         assist in the making of arrangements to obtain information that is, or is likely to become, relevant to the diagnosis, care or treatment of any medical condition of the child; and

            (f)         give the birth parents an opportunity to provide information that is, or is likely to become, relevant to the placement of the child with a view to the child’s adoption, and the adoption of the child.

        (2)         The CEO is to commence the provision of a service requested under subsection (1) within 7 days of the request.

        [Section 16 amended by No. 34 of 2004 s. 251.]