NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR REGULATION 74/22

NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR
REGULATION 74/22

Adoption Regulations, 2014 (Amendment)
under the
Adoption Act, 2013

(Filed October 28, 2022)

Under the authority of section 73 of the Adoption Act, 2013, I make the following regulations.

Dated at St. John’s, October 27, 2022.

John Abbott
Minister of Children, Seniors and Social Development

REGULATIONS

Analysis

NLR 48/14

1. The Adoption Regulations, 2014 are amended by adding immediately after section 14 the following:

PART II.1
INDIGENOUS REPRESENTATIVE

Indigenous representative

14.1 (1) An Indigenous government or organization may designate one or more Indigenous representatives.

(2) Where an Indigenous government or organization designates one or more Indigenous representatives it shall notify the minister, in writing, of the name of each Indigenous representative.

(3) An Indigenous representative designated under subsection (1) may designate a person as an acting Indigenous representative to perform the duties of the Indigenous representative where the Indigenous representative is absent or unable to act.

(4) Where an acting Indigenous representative is designated under subsection (3),

(a) the Indigenous representative shall notify the Indigenous government or organization of the designation and the time period in which the person designated will be acting as the Indigenous representative; and

(b) the Indigenous government or organization shall immediately provide that information to the minister in writing.

(5) Where an Indigenous government or organization replaces a person appointed under subsection (1), the Indigenous government or organization shall immediately notify the minister, in writing of the change.

Commencement

2. These regulations come into force on the day the Act to Amend the Adoption Act, 2013 comes into force.