Section 61DAA — Family Law Act 1975: Effect of parenting order that provides for joint decision-making about major long-term issues

(1) If a parenting order provides for joint decision-making by persons in relation to all or specified major long-term issues in relation to a child, then, except to the extent the order otherwise specifies, the order is taken to require each of the persons: (a) to consult each other person in relation to each such decision; and (b) to make a genuine effort to come to a joint decision. (2) To avoid doubt, this section does not require any other person to establish, before acting on a decision about the child communicated by one of those persons, that the decision has been made jointly.