When can information be provided to, or about, an adopted person’s birth father?
The Adoption Act 2009 recognises a man as an adopted person’s birth father if: • he consented to the adoption or the need for his consent was dispensed with • he is recorded on the birth certificate as the person’s father • Adoption Services Queensland’s records demonstrate he accepted paternity of the adopted person before or at the time of the adoption • there is otherwise sufficient evidence to satisfy the chief executive that the man is the adopted person’s biological father. This will enable identifying information to be provided to birth fathers about, and about birth fathers to, their son or daughter who was adopted, in more circumstances than under the current adoption law.
