(1) Without limiting the ability of persons to make access or amendment applications for children, an access or amendment application may be made for the child by the child's parent.
Note—
1 Section 196 clarifies the powers of those acting for others.
2 For an application made for a child, the child (and not the parent) is the applicant—see schedule 5, definition applicant.
(2) In this section—
child means an individual who is under 18 years.
parent—
1 Parent, of a child, means 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, including a person who is granted guardianship of the child under the Child Protection Act 1999 or who otherwise exercises parental responsibility for the child under a decision or order of a federal court or a court of a State.
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.