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FAMILY LAW ACT 1975 - SECT 67K Who may apply for a location order

FAMILY LAW ACT 1975 - SECT 67K

Who may apply for a location order

  (1)   A location order in relation to a child may be applied for by:

  (a)   a person with whom the child is to live under a parenting order; or

  (b)   a person with whom the child is to spend time under a parenting order; or

  (c)   a person with whom the child is to communicate under a parenting order; or

  (caa)   a person who has parental responsibility for the child under a parenting order; or

  (ca)   a grandparent of the child; or

  (d)   any other person concerned with the care, welfare or development of the child.

  (2)   For the purposes of the Child Protection Convention, a person (including one appointed as the Central Authority for the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory for the purposes of Article 29 of the Convention) may apply to a court for a location order.

  (3)   For the purposes of the Child Abduction Convention, a person (including one appointed as the Central Authority for the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory for the purposes of Article 6 of the Convention) may apply to a court for a location order.

  (4)   In this section:

"Child Abduction Convention" means the Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction done at The Hague on 25   October 1980.

Note:   The Child Abduction Convention is in Australian Treaty Series 1987 No.   2 ([1987] ATS 2) and could in 2018 be viewed in the Australian Treaties Library on the AustLII website (http://www.austlii.edu.au).

"Child Protection Convention" has the same meaning as in section   111CA.

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