Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

FAMILY LAW ACT 1975 - SECT 69D

             (1)  The regulations may make provision with respect to authorising:

                     (a)  a specified authority of the Commonwealth or of a State or Territory; or

                     (b)  the person from time to time holding or acting in a specified office established under a law of the Commonwealth or of a State or Territory;

to institute and conduct, on behalf of a child, in the authority's or person's discretion, proceedings with respect to the maintenance of the child.

             (2)  Proceedings instituted on behalf of a child under regulations covered by subsection (1) are taken, for the purposes of section 69C and the provisions referred to in it, to have been instituted by the child.