South Australian Current Acts South Australian Current Acts40A—Notification of death of party to adoption
(1) If the
Chief Executive is informed by the Registrar that an adopted person has died,
the Chief Executive must, if the Chief Executive considers it appropriate to
do so, take reasonable steps to inform—
(a) the
adopted person's birth parents of the death; and
(b) each
person who would have been a sibling of the adopted person (whether of the
whole or half blood) if the adoption order had not been made.
(2) If the
Chief Executive receives information that a birth parent of an adopted person
has died, the Chief Executive must, if the Chief Executive considers it
appropriate to do so, take reasonable steps to inform the adopted person.
(3) If the
Chief Executive informs—
(a) the
birth parents of an adopted person of the adopted person's death; or
(b) an
adopted person of the death of a birth parent of the adopted person,
the fact that a direction lodged under section 27B by the deceased
adopted person or birth parent (as the case may be) was in effect at the time
of death does not prevent the Chief Executive from—
(c) in
the case of a deceased adopted person—disclosing to the birth parents
information in the Chief Executive's possession relating to the adopted
person; or
(d) in
the case of a deceased birth parent—disclosing to the adopted person
information in the Chief Executive's possession relating to the birth parent.