Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

FAMILY LAW ACT 1975 - SECT 65DAC

             (1)  This section applies if, under a parenting order:

                     (a)  2 or more persons are to share parental responsibility for a child; and

                     (b)  the exercise of that parental responsibility involves making a decision about a major long-term issue in relation to the child.

             (2)  The order is taken to require the decision to be made jointly by those persons.

Note:          Subject to any court orders, decisions about issues that are not major long-term issues are made by the person with whom the child is spending time without a need to consult the other person (see section 65DAE).

             (3)  The order is taken to require each of those persons:

                     (a)  to consult the other person in relation to the decision to be made about that issue; and

                     (b)  to make a genuine effort to come to a joint decision about that issue.

             (4)  To avoid doubt, this section does not require any other person to establish, before acting on a decision about the child communicated by one of those persons, that the decision has been made jointly.