Western Australian Consolidated Acts

ADOPTION ACT 1994 - SECT 44

44 .         CEO to keep registers

        (1)         The CEO is to establish and maintain — 

            (a)         a register of the names of persons who apply under section 38(1); and

            (b)         a register of the names of persons who are approved by the adoption applications committee.

        (2)         The CEO may delete, in accordance with regulations, the name of a person or the names of persons entered in a register.

        (3)         Where the name of any person has been deleted under subsection (2) from a register, the CEO is to notify the person in a manner prescribed by regulation.

        (4)         Where the name of any person has been deleted under subsection (2) from a register, the person may, in the manner prescribed by regulation, apply to the CEO to have his or her name re-entered in the register.

        (5)         The CEO may, on a ground prescribed by regulation, re-enter in the register, the name of a person who applies under subsection (4).

        [Section 44 amended by No. 8 of 2003 s. 26; No. 34 of 2004 s. 251.]