Hong Kong Ordinances

ADOPTION ORDINANCE - SECT 27A

Application for suitability assessment and authorization for checking criminal record, etc.

(1) An application under section 27 shall be made in a form specified by the
Director and submitted—

   (a)  in the case of local adoption, to the Director or an accredited  body
        accredited for that purpose;

   (b)  in the case of adoption of overseas children or Convention adoption,
        to the Director or an accredited body authorized by the Director in
        that behalf.

(2) The application shall be submitted together with—

   (a)  such information as the Director or the accredited body (as the case
        may be) may reasonably require; and

   (b)  a written authorization from the applicant to the Commissioner of
        Police authorizing the Commissioner of Police—

        (i)    to inform the Director whether or not the applicant has at any
               time been convicted of any offence in Hong Kong or elsewhere;
               and

        (ii)   if the applicant has a previous conviction, to release to the
               Director the particulars of the conviction.

(3) In the case of local adoption where the application is submitted to an
accredited body, the applicant may, in the authorization, designate the
accredited body in substitution of the Director for the purposes of
subparagraphs (i) and (ii) of subsection (2)(b).

(4) On receiving an authorization submitted under subsection (2), the
accredited body shall forthwith send the authorization to the Director for him
to proceed in accordance with section 28.

(5) The Director or the accredited body (as the case may be) may refuse to
consider an application in respect of which subsections (1) and

(2) are not complied with. (Part 7 added 28 of 2004 s. 32)