Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00597:reg:14
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00597
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 14
Character Range: 20556–21724

14  Child in hospital following birth
  For the purposes of Subdivision A, a person satisfies this section for a child on a day if:
 (a) the person is:
 (i) the child's birth mother; or
 (ii) a person who is a parent of the child and is not the child's birth mother; or
 (iii) a partner of the child's birth mother; or
 (iv) a partner of a person covered by subparagraph (ii); and
 (b) the child is required to remain in hospital after the child's birth, or is hospitalised immediately after the child's birth, for one or more of the following reasons:
 (i) the child was born prematurely;
 (ii) the child developed a complication or contracted an illness during the child's period of gestation or at birth;
 (iii) the child developed a complication or contracted an illness following the child's birth; and
 (c) on that day, the child:
 (i) remains in hospital for one or more of the reasons referred to in paragraph (b); or
 (ii) is being discharged after remaining in hospital for one or more of the reasons referred to in paragraph (b); and
 (d) if the person is the birth mother of the child—that day is on or after the 14th day after the day the child is born.