Victorian Numbered Acts

ADOPTION AMENDMENT (ADOPTION BY SAME-SEX COUPLES) ACT 2015 (NO. 68 OF 2015)

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   PART 1--PRELIMINARY

   1.      Purpose  
   2.      Commencement  
   3.      Principal Act  

   PART 2--AMENDMENTS TO THE ADOPTION ACT 1984

   4.      Definitions  
   5.      Who may be adopted  
   6.      Application for adoption order  
   7.      Persons in whose favour adoption orders may be made  
   8.      Orders in favour of relatives  
   9.      Determination by Secretary or approved agency  
   10.     Consents to be construed as general consents  
   11.     Guardianship of child awaiting adoption  
   12.     General effect of adoption orders  
   13.     Bequest by will to unascertained adopted person  
   14.     Access to birth certificates of adopted persons  
   15.     Penalty for making unauthorized arrangements  
   16.     New section 132 inserted  

   PART 3--AMENDMENT TO THE EQUAL OPPORTUNITY ACT 2010

   PART 4--REPEAL OF AMENDING ACT

   17.     Repeal of amending Act  
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