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.
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