132Transitionals—Adoption Amendment Act 2015

132 Transitionals—Adoption Amendment Act 2015 (1) In this section— ***commencement day*** means the day on which the **Adoption Amendment Act 2015** comes into operation; ***contact statement*** has the same meaning as it had in section 4(1) as in force immediately before the commencement day; ***relevant authority*** has the same meaning as in section 82. (2) On and after the commencement day, a contact statement that is in force immediately before that day, is taken to be in force for the period that it would have continued to be in force had section 90B(1) not been repealed. (3) A contact statement that is taken to be in force on and after the commencement day ceases to have effect if— (a) the adopted person who made the contact statement revokes that contact statement by notice in writing given to the Secretary; or (b) the adopted person dies. (4) On and after the commencement day, a relevant authority must not give an applicant referred to in section 96(1) any information referred to in paragraph (b) of that subsection if the adopted person has specified the applicant in a contact statement that is in force, unless the relevant authority has disclosed the adopted person's wishes stated in the contact statement about contact with the applicant. (5) Proceedings for an offence against section 127A, which was repealed by the **Adoption Amendment Act 2015**, must not be commenced on or after the commencement day, irrespective of when the offence to which the proceeding relates is alleged to have been committed. S. 133 inserted by No. 68/2015 s. 16.