Status of Children Regulation 2022 (Qld)

Status of Children Regulation 2022

Part 1 Preliminary

1 Short title This regulation may be cited as the Status of Children Regulation 2022.

2 Commencement This regulation commences on 1 September 2022.

3 Definitions The dictionary in schedule 1 defines particular words used in this regulation.

Part 2 Parentage testing procedure and report

Division 1 Application of part

4 Application of part This part provides the requirements for— (a) carrying out a parentage testing procedure under a parentage testing order; and (b) preparing a parentage testing procedure report.

Division 2 Taking sample for parentage testing procedure

5 Only sampler may take sample A person must not take a sample from a donor for a parentage testing procedure unless the person is a sampler.

6 Information to be given to sampler before sample taken (1) A sampler must not take a sample from a donor for a parentage testing procedure unless, immediately before the sampler takes the sample, a relevant person for an affidavit for the donor— (a) makes an affidavit in the approved form; and (b) attaches a recent photograph of the donor to the affidavit; and (c) signs the relevant person's name partly on the photograph and partly on the affidavit in the way required by the approved form; and (d) gives the affidavit and another recent photograph of the donor to the sampler. (2) In this section— recent photograph, of a donor, means a photograph of the donor that satisfies the requirements for the photograph stated in the approved form. relevant person, for an affidavit for a donor, means— (a) if the donor is a child who is under 16 years or is a child who is 16 or 17 years with impaired capacity—a person who may consent to the carrying out of a parentage testing procedure on the donor under section 11(4)(b) of the Act; or (b) if the donor is an adult with impaired capacity—a person who may consent to the carrying out of a parentage testing procedure on the donor under section 11(4)(c) of the Act; or (c) otherwise—the donor.