SUCCESSION ACT 1981 - SECT 61E
Effect of appointment
SUCCESSION ACT 1981 - SECT 61E
Effect of appointment
61E Effect of appointment
(1) A testamentary guardian of a child has all the powers, rights and
responsibilities, for making decisions about the long-term care, welfare and
development of the child, that are ordinarily vested in a guardian.
Examples
of matters concerned with a child’s long term care, welfare and
development—
the child’s education and religious upbringing
(2) The
appointment of a person as testamentary guardian of a child gives the person
daily care authority for the child if and only if—
(a) the child has no
surviving parent; and
(b) no-one else has daily care authority for the child
(however described) under a decision or order of a federal court or a court of
a State.
(3) In this section—
"daily care authority" , for a child, means—
(a) the right to have the
child’s daily care; and
(b) the right and responsibility to make decisions
about the child’s daily care.