Western Australian Current Acts

FAMILY COURT ACT 1997 - SECT 70

70 .         Parenting orders and parental responsibility — FLA s. 61D

        (1)         A parenting order confers parental responsibility for a child on a person, but only to the extent to which the order confers on the person duties, powers, responsibilities or authority in relation to the child.

        (2)         A parenting order in relation to a child does not take away or diminish any aspect of the parental responsibility of any person for the child except to the extent (if any) —

            (a)         expressly provided for in the order; or

            (b)         necessary to give effect to the order.