Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

PAID PARENTAL LEAVE ACT 2010 - SECT 54

PPL claim

  (1)   Only the following people can make a PPL claim for a child:

  (a)   the child's birth mother;

  (b)   an adoptive parent of the child;

  (c)   a person who:

  (i)   is a parent of the child; and

  (ii)   is not the child's birth mother;

  (d)   the partner of the child's birth mother;

  (e)   the partner of an adoptive parent of the child;

  (f)   the partner of a person covered by paragraph   (c);

  (g)   a person who satisfies the circumstances prescribed by the PPL rules as being exceptional circumstances in which a PPL claim can be made.

Special PPL claim

  (2)   Only the following people can make a special PPL claim for a child:

  (a)   the partner of a person covered by paragraph   (1)(g);

  (b)   a person who satisfies the circumstances prescribed by the PPL rules as being exceptional circumstances in which a special PPL claim can be made.