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Adoption Act 2009
sec.162Initial period of full-time personal care by adoptive parents
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### sec.162 Initial period of full-time personal care by adoptive parents
The chief executive must have regard to the consideration that it would ordinarily be in a child’s best interests to receive full-time care, provided personally by one or both of the persons with whom the child is placed, for at least 1 year after the placement.