The child’s birth has not been verified
18 The child’s birth has not been verified
The Secretary must not make a payability determination that parental leave pay is payable to a person for a child unless a PPL claimant has verified the child’s birth.
Verifying a child’s birth
A person verifies a child’s birth if:
the person gives the Secretary a completed birth verification form for the child; and
if subsection (3) applies to the person, the person satisfies the requirement of that subsection.
If:
the person is the parent (other than an adoptive parent) of the child; and
the child is not stillborn; and
the person is, under a law of a State or a Territory, responsible (whether alone or jointly) for registering the birth of the child under the law;
then the person must give the Secretary information showing that:
the child’s birth has been registered under the law; or
the person has applied to have the birth of the child registered under the law.
The Secretary may approve a form (a birth verification form) for the purposes of verifying the birth of a child.
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