Western Australian Numbered Acts

ADOPTION AMENDMENT ACT (NO. 2) 2003 (NO. 8 OF 2003)

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title
           Preamble

   1.      Short title  
   2.      Commencement  
   3.      The Act amended  
   4.      Section 3 replaced  
   3.      Principles 2  
   5.      Section 4 amended  
   6.      Section 4A replaced  
   4A.     Presumptions of parentage 5  
   7.      Section 9 amended and a transitional provision  
   8.      Section 10 amended  
   9.      Heading to Part 2 Division 3 amended  
   10.     Section 12 replaced  
   12.     Establishment of adoption applications committee 7  
   11.     Section 13 amended  
   12.     Section 14 amended  
   13.     Section 15 amended  
   14.     Part 3 Division 1 heading replaced

           Division 1 -- Preliminary matters  

   15.     Section 16A inserted  
   16A.    Matters relevant to the adoption process for Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander children 9  
   16.     Section 18 amended  
   17.     Section 19 repealed  
   18.     Section 21 amended  
   19.     Section 23 amended  
   20.     Section 24 amended  
   21.     Section 26C amended  
   22.     Section 37 amended  
   23.     Section 39 amended  
   24.     Section 41 amended  
   25.     Section 42 amended  
   26.     Section 44 amended  
   27.     Section 45 amended  
   28.     Section 46 amended  
   29.     Section 52 amended  
   30.     Section 53 replaced  
   53.     Placing children who cannot be placed under s. 52 15  
   31.     Section 58 amended  
   32.     Section 59 amended  
   33.     Section 61 amended  
   34.     Section 65 amended and validation of certain adoption orders  
   35.     Section 66 amended  
   36.     Section 67 amended  
   37.     Section 68 amended  
   38.     Section 69 amended  
   39.     Section 73 replaced  
   73.     Dispensing with adoption plans 20  
   40.     Section 74 amended  
   41.     Section 77 amended  
   42.     Section 79 amended  
   43.     Section 80 amended  
   44.     Section 82 amended  
   45.     Section 84 amended  
   46.     Section 86 amended  
   47.     Section 87 repealed  
   48.     Section 89 replaced  
   89.     If party to adoption deceased 24  
   49.     Section 90 replaced  
   90.     If adoptee cannot be found 26  
   50.     Section 94 amended  
   51.     Part 4 Division 4 heading amended  
   52.     Section 95 repealed  
   53.     Section 96 repealed  
   54.     Section 97 repealed  
   55.     Section 98 amended  
   56.     Section 98 repealed  
   57.     Section 99 replaced  
   99.     Register of contact vetoes 29  
   58.     Section 100 amended  
   59.     Section 101 repealed and a provision declaring information vetoes to be ineffective from the time of the repeal  
   60.     Section 102 amended  
   61.     Heading to Part 4 Division 5 amended  
   62.     Section 105 amended  
   63.     Section 106 amended  
   64.     Section 107 amended  
   65.     Section 108 amended  
   66.     Section 110 amended  
   67.     Heading to Part 5 Division 2 replaced

           Division 2 -- Decisions of the adoption applications committee  

   68.     Section 113 amended  
   69.     Section 114 amended  
   70.     Section 116 amended  
   71.     Section 120 amended  
   72.     Section 124 amended  
   73.     Section 127 amended  
   74.     Section 128 replaced  
   128.    Authority, and time in which, to prosecute 35  
   75.     Section 129 amended  
   76.     Section 130A amended  
   77.     Section 131 amended  
   78.     Section 134 amended  
   79.     Section 136F amended  
   80.     Section 136H amended  
   81.     Section 138D amended  
   82.     Section 143 amended  
   83.     Section 146 replaced  
   146.    Review 39  
   84.     Schedule 1 amended  
   1.      Information and counselling before consent 40  
   3.      Certificate of witness 41  
   85.     Schedule 2A replaced
           Schedule 2A -- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children -- placement for adoption principle  
   86.     Schedule 3 amended  
   87.     Consequential amendment to Constitution Acts Amendment Act 1899
            
           
[Assented to 1 April 2003]