EDUCATION (GENERAL PROVISIONS) ACT 2006 - SECT 10 Meaning of parent

EDUCATION (GENERAL PROVISIONS) ACT 2006 - SECT 10

10 Meaning of parent

(1) A
"parent" , of a child, is any of the following persons—

(a) the child’s mother;

(b) the child’s father;

(c) a person who exercises parental responsibility for the child.

(2) However, a person standing in the place of a parent of a child on a temporary basis is not a parent of the child.

(3) A parent of an Aboriginal child includes a person who, under Aboriginal tradition, is regarded as a parent of the child.

(4) A parent of a Torres Strait Islander child includes a person who, under Island custom, is regarded as a parent of the child.

(5) Despite subsections (1) , (3) and (4) , if—

(a) a person is granted guardianship of a child under the Child Protection Act 1999 ; or

(b) a person otherwise exercises parental responsibility for a child under a decision or order of a federal court or a court of a State;

then a reference in this Act to a parent of a child is a reference only to a person mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b) .