Family Law Amendment (Shared Parental Responsibility) Act 2006 (46 of 2006)

Schedule 4   Changes to dispute resolution

Part 3   Changes to dispute resolution

Family Law Act 1975

64   After section 65LA

Insert:

65LB Conditions for providers of post-separation parenting programs

(1) An organisation meets the conditions in this section if:

(a) it is a recipient organisation (see subsection (2)); or

(b) there is a recipient organisation in relation to the organisation (see subsection (3)).

(2) An organisation is a recipient organisation for the purposes of paragraph (1)(a) if it receives, or has been approved to receive, funding under a program or a part of a program designated by the Minister under subsection (4) in order to provide services that include post-separation parenting programs.

(3) An organisation is a recipient organisation in relation to another organisation for the purposes of paragraph (1)(b) if:

(a) both:

(i) the other organisation is a member of the organisation; and

(ii) the organisation receives, or has been approved to receive, funding under a program or a part of a program designated by the Minister under subsection (4) in order that the organisation's members may provide services that include post-separation parenting programs; or

(b) both:

(i) the organisation acts on behalf of a group of organisations that includes the other organisation; and

(ii) the organisation receives, or has been approved to receive, funding under a program or a part of a program designated by the Minister under subsection (4) in order that the organisations on whose behalf it acts may provide services that include post-separation parenting programs.

(4) The Minister may, in writing, designate for the purposes of this section:

(a) a program; or

(b) part of a program;

administered by or on behalf of the Commonwealth Government under which money appropriated by the Parliament is provided to organisations for the purposes of making post-separation parenting programs available.

(5) An instrument under this section is not a legislative instrument.