Queensland Consolidated Acts

CHILD EMPLOYMENT ACT 2006 - SECT 6

6 Meaning of parent of a child

(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) , a reference in this Act to a parent of a child is a reference only to—

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

(b) if paragraph (a) does not apply but a person otherwise exercises parental responsibility for a child under a decision or order of a Federal Court or a court of a State—the person who exercises parental responsibility for the child under the decision or order.