Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A03590:body:0:p8
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A03590
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Character Range: 19365–21938

a medical practitioner under a law of a State or Territory that provides for the registration or licensing of medical practitioners;
     'overseas custody order' means an order made by a court of a prescribed overseas jurisdiction that is:
          (a) an order the effect of which is to grant to a person:
              (i) the right to custody of a child who has not attained 18 years of age; or
              (ii) a right of access to a child who has not attained 18 years of age;
          whether or not the order also has the effect of granting to the person, or to another person, other rights and responsibilities; or
          (b) an order varying or discharging an order of the kind referred to in paragraph (a), including an order of that kind made under this Act;
     'parent', in relation to a child who has been adopted, means an adoptive parent of the child;

     'parentage testing procedure' means a medical procedure prescribed, or included in a class of medical procedures prescribed, for the purposes of this definition;
     'step-parent', in relation to a child, means a person who:
          (a) is not a parent of the child;
          (b) is or has been married to a parent of the child; and
          (c) treats, or at any time during the marriage treated, the child as a member of the family formed with the parent.

Certain children are children of marriage etc.
"60a. (1) A reference in this Act to a child of a marriage includes, subject to subsection (3), a reference to each of the following children:
     (a) a child adopted since the marriage by the husband and wife or by either of them with the consent of the other;
     (b) a child of the husband and wife born before the marriage;
     (c) a child who is, under subsection 60b (1), the child of the husband and wife.
"(2) A reference in this Act to a child of a marriage includes a reference to a child of:
     (a) a marriage that has been dissolved or annulled, in Australia or elsewhere; or
     (b) a marriage that has been terminated by the death of one party to the marriage.
"(3) A child of a marriage who is adopted by a person who is not a party to the marriage ceases to be a child of the marriage for the purposes of this Act.

Children born as a result of artificial conception procedures
"60b. (1) Where:
     (a) a child is born to a woman as a result of the carrying out of an artificial conception procedure while the woman was married to a man; and
     (b) either of the following paragraphs apply:
          (i) the procedure was carried out with their consent;