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Adoption Act 2009
sec.334Special Needs Children’s Adoption List
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### sec.334 Special Needs Children’s Adoption List
This section applies to a person whose name was in the Special Needs Children’s Adoption List immediately before the commencement day.
If there was a notation in the list, made under the repealed Act, section 13D(3)(a), stating the person is a prospective adopter, the person’s name must be listed in the suitable adoptive parents register.
Otherwise, the person’s name must be listed in the expression of interest register.
For section 79(1)(a), a name listed in the expression of interest register under subsection (3) is taken to have been entered in that register on the later of the following days—
the day the name was entered in the Special Needs Children’s Adoption List under the repealed Act;
1 year before the commencement day.
(sec.334-ssec.1) This section applies to a person whose name was in the Special Needs Children’s Adoption List immediately before the commencement day.
(sec.334-ssec.2) If there was a notation in the list, made under the repealed Act, section 13D(3)(a), stating the person is a prospective adopter, the person’s name must be listed in the suitable adoptive parents register.
(sec.334-ssec.3) Otherwise, the person’s name must be listed in the expression of interest register.
(sec.334-ssec.4) For section 79(1)(a), a name listed in the expression of interest register under subsection (3) is taken to have been entered in that register on the later of the following days— the day the name was entered in the Special Needs Children’s Adoption List under the repealed Act; 1 year before the commencement day.
- (a) the day the name was entered in the Special Needs Children’s Adoption List under the repealed Act;
- (b) 1 year before the commencement day.