Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) The Secretary must not make a payability determination that parental leave pay is payable to a person for a child unless a PPL claimant has verified the child's birth.
Verifying a child's birth
(2) A person verifies a child's birth if:
(a) the person gives the Secretary a completed birth verification form for the child; and
(b) if subsection (3) applies to the person, the person satisfies the requirement of that subsection.
(3) If:
(a) the person is the parent (other than an adoptive parent) of the child; and
(b) the child is not stillborn; and
(c) the person is, under a law of a State or a Territory, responsible (whether alone or jointly) for registering the birth of the child under the law;
then the person must give the Secretary information showing that:
(d) the child's birth has been registered under the law; or
(e) the person has applied to have the birth of the child registered under the law.
(4) The Secretary may approve a form (a birth verification form ) for the purposes of verifying the birth of a child.