Western Australian Consolidated Acts

ADOPTION ACT 1994 - SECT 37

37 .         Duty of CEO as to information about adoptive parenthood

        (1)         The CEO is to provide persons contemplating adoptive parenthood with oral and written information about, and counselling in relation to, adoption.

        (2)         Subsection (1) does not apply to a step-parent or carer of a child who is thinking about adopting the child, but if requested, the CEO is to provide such a person with oral and written information about, and counselling in relation to, adoption.

        (3)         Despite subsection (1), the CEO does not have to provide a person who is already an adoptive parent and who is contemplating adoptive parenthood for a second or subsequent time with oral information about, and counselling in relation to, adoption unless the person chooses to be provided with such information and counselling.

        [Section 37 amended by No. 8 of 2003 s. 22; No. 34 of 2004 s. 251.]