Section 18 — Paid Parental Leave Act 2010: The child’s birth has not been verified

(1) 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 (2) A person verifies a child’s birth if: (a) the person gives the Secretary a completed birth verification form for the child; and (b) if subsection (3) applies to the person, the person satisfies the requirement of that subsection. (3) If: (a) the person is the parent (other than an adoptive parent) of the child; and (b) the child is not stillborn; and (c) 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: (d) the child’s birth has been registered under the law; or (e) the person has applied to have the birth of the child registered under the law. (4) The Secretary may approve a form (a birth verification form) for the purposes of verifying the birth of a child.