Adoption (General) Regulations 2018 (SA)

South Australia Adoption (General) Regulations 2018 under the Adoption Act 1988

Contents Part 1—Preliminary 1 Short title 3 Interpretation Part 2—Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child Placement Principle 4 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child Placement Principle Part 3—Consent to adoption 5 Counselling 6 Witnessing Part 4—Prospective Adoptive Parents Register 7 Prospective Adoptive Parents Register 8 Expressions of interest and applications for registration 9 Minimum requirements for applicants for registration 10 Assessment report 11 Registration 12 Transfer of registration from another State or Territory 13 Conversion of registration into joint registration 14 Duration and renewal of registration 15 Cancellation of registration 16 Additional requirements relating to applications Part 5—Review 17 Review by Tribunal 18 Powers of Tribunal Part 6—Selection of applicants for adoption orders 19 Order in which registered persons selected to be applicants for adoption orders Part 7—Proceedings under Act 20 Legal practitioners to comply with this regulation when representing party under 18 years 21 Discharge of adoption orders—investigations Part 8—Register of births 22 Court to notify Registrar of adoption order etc 23 Information to be disclosed in extract from register of births Part 9—Miscellaneous 24 Forms 24A Payment of fees etc 25 Offence to make false or misleading statement 26 Evidentiary Legislative history

Part 1—Preliminary 1—Short title These regulations may be cited as the Adoption (General) Regulations 2018. 3—Interpretation (1) In these regulations— Act means the Adoption Act 1988; adoption agency means a person or organisation approved by the Chief Executive under section 29 of the Act; child with special needs means a child who has, or is likely to have, an intellectual, psychiatric, sensory or physical impairment or a combination of such impairments; overseas subregister means the subregister of the register relating to children who are resident in a country outside Australia; register means the Prospective Adoptive Parents Register kept under Part 4; Tribunal means the South Australian Civil and Administrative Tribunal established under the South Australian Civil and Administrative Tribunal Act 2013. (2) For the purposes of these regulations, a reference to a person being convicted of an offence will be taken to include a reference to— (a) a finding of a court under Part 8A of the Criminal Law Consolidation Act 1935 that the objective elements of an offence are established (whether or not the person was found not guilty of the offence, or was found to be mentally unfit to stand trial, in accordance with Division 2, 3 or 3A of that Part); or (b) any finding of a court of another jurisdiction that corresponds to a finding referred to in paragraph (a).