Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00859:section:69d
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00859
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 69D
Character Range: 393596–394329

69D  Institution of maintenance proceedings by authorised authority or person
 (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.