Queensland Numbered Acts

MERIBA OMASKER KAZIW KAZIPA (TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER TRADITIONAL CHILD REARING PRACTICE) ACT 2020 - SECT 66

66 Effect on relationships

(1) On the making of a cultural recognition order about a person—

(a) the person’s parentage is transferred from the birth parents to the cultural parents; and

(b) the person becomes a child of the cultural parents; and

(c) the cultural parents become the parents of the person; and

(d) the person stops being a child of the birth parents; and

(e) a birth parent stops being a parent of the person.

(2) Other relationships are determined in accordance with subsection (1) .

(3) However, for the purpose of applying a law relating to a sexual offence where a familial relationship is relevant, the person is taken to have—

(a) the familial relationship that existed before the making of the order; and

(b) the familial relationship resulting from the making of the order.