Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

SOCIAL SECURITY ACT 1991 - SECT 37

    A young person is taken to be a dependent child of a member of a couple (the adult ) for the purposes of Part   2.10 (parenting payment) if:

  (a)   the young person is an inmate of a mental hospital; and

  (b)   the mental hospital is either:

  (i)   maintained by the Commonwealth, a State, the Australian Capital Territory or the Northern Territory; or

  (ii)   mainly dependent upon financial assistance from the Commonwealth, a State, the Australian Capital Territory or the Northern Territory; and

  (c)   the adult is making a reasonable contribution towards the expenses of maintaining the young person; and

  (d)   the Secretary determines that the young person is to be taken to be a dependent child of the adult.