Queensland Consolidated Acts

ADOPTION ACT 2009 - SECT 60

60 Chief executive may place child in parents’ care

(1) This section applies if—

(a) the chief executive is the child’s guardian under section 57 ; and

(b) it is at least 30 days since, for at least 1 of the child’s parents, the parent consented to the child’s adoption or the need for the parent’s consent was dispensed with; and

(c) the chief executive is satisfied—

(i) one or more of the child’s parents are willing and able to protect the child from harm and meet the child’s need for long-term stable care; and

(ii) it would otherwise be in the child’s best interests to be placed in the care of one or more of the parents under this section; and

(d) an interim order is not in force for the child.

(2) The chief executive may place the child in the care of one or more of the parents by giving each of the child’s parents a signed notice.

(3) On the placement of the child under subsection (2) —

(a) the chief executive’s guardianship of the child under section 57 ends; and

(b) a consent to the child’s adoption given by a parent of the child stops having effect.