PAID PARENTAL LEAVE ACT 2010 - SECT 18 The child's birth has not been verified

PAID PARENTAL LEAVE ACT 2010 - SECT 18

  (1)   The Secretary must not make a payability determination that parental leave pay is payable to a person for a child unless a PPL claimant has verified the child's birth.

Verifying a child's birth

  (2)   A person verifies a child's birth if:

  (a)   the person gives the Secretary a completed birth verification form for the child; and

  (b)   if subsection   (3) applies to the person, the person satisfies the requirement of that subsection.

  (3)   If:

  (a)   the person is the parent (other than an adoptive parent) of the child; and

  (b)   the child is not stillborn; and

  (c)   the person is, under a law of a State or a Territory, responsible (whether alone or jointly) for registering the birth of the child under the law;

then the person must give the Secretary information showing that:

  (d)   the child's birth has been registered under the law; or

  (e)   the person has applied to have the birth of the child registered under the law.

  (4)   The Secretary may approve a form (a birth verification form ) for the purposes of verifying the birth of a child.