Western Australian Consolidated Regulations

ADOPTION REGULATIONS 1995 - REG 86

86 .         What constitutes Family Court record of proceedings

        (1)         For the purposes of regulation 85, the following documents are to be taken as constituting the record of proceedings in the Court —

            (a)         each form signed by a birth parent of the child in which the birth parent consented to the child’s adoption;

            (b)         if relevant, each Application to Dispense with Consent(s) being Form 4 in the Second Schedule to the Adoption of Children Rules 1970  ² ;

            (c)         the application for the adoption order;

            (d)         the adoption order;

            (e)         if relevant, the order discharging the adoption order; and

            (f)         in the case of an applicant who is the adoptee, that portion of any document naming a birth parent of the adoptee, but only if that birth parent has admitted parentage and provided evidence to that effect which has been accepted by the Court.

        (2)         For the purposes of subregulation (1), if the adoption was conducted under the Adoption of Children Act 1896  ³ , a reference in that subregulation to an adoption order is to be taken to be reference to an order of adoption within the meaning of that Act.

        [Regulation 86 amended in Gazette 10 Dec 2002 p. 5749.]

        [Heading inserted in Gazette 3 Sep 1999 p. 4309.]