The Adoption of Children Act 1966/7 (Act no. 12/1967) was asssented to on 6 April 1967 and commenced on 2 November 1967.
Its long title was ‘An Act to Consolidate and Amend the law relating to the Adoption of Children and for purposes connected therewith; and to repeal the Adoption of Children Act, 1925-1965’.
This Act was passed in response to the Commonwealth government’s push for model legislation to harmonise adoption law in Australia. It was repealed by Adoption Act 1988 on 17 August 1989.
This act had several amendments: Amended by Act No.15/1971, Act No.89/1975, Act No.65/1976, Act No.29/1978, Act No.79/1980