30PDocuments to be given to employer before employee takes leave

30P Documents to be given to employer before employee takes leave (1) Before beginning a period of Division 2 adoption leave, the employee must give to the employer: (a) a statement from the adoption agency of the proposed date of placement of the child; and (b) a statutory declaration (the relevant statutory declaration) in accordance with subregulation (3). (2) If the employee has applied for more than one period of Division 2 adoption leave in respect of a placement, the reference in subregulation (1) to a period is to be taken as a reference to the first of those periods. (3) A statutory declaration under paragraph (1) (b) must: (a) state that the employee proposes to take one or both of the following (as the case requires): (i) Division 2 short adoption leave to enable the employee, or the employee and the employee’s spouse, to care for the child; (ii) Division 2 long adoption leave in order to be the child’s primary care-giver; (b) state that the child: (i) will be at the proposed date of the placement, or was, at the date of the placement, as the case requires, under the age of 5 years; and (ii) is not a child or step-child of the employee or the employee’s spouse; and (iii) will not have, at the proposed date of the placement, or had not, at the date of the placement, as the case requires, previously lived with the employee for a continuous period of 6 months or more; (c) specify: (i) the first and last days of any period of short adoption leave for which the employee’s spouse intends to apply, or has applied, in respect of the placement of the child; and (ii) the first and last days of any period of long adoption leave for which the employee’s spouse intends to apply, or has applied, in respect of the placement of the child; and (iii) the first and last days of each period of annual leave, or long service leave, for which the employee’s spouse intends to apply, or has applied, instead of, or in conjunction with, that adoption leave; and (d) state that the employee: (i) will be the child’s primary care-giver throughout the period (if any) of Division 2 long adoption leave referred to in paragraph (3) (a); and (ii) will not engage in any conduct inconsistent with the employee’s contract of employment while on adoption leave.