15What is parental responsibility?

15 What is parental responsibility? parental responsibility, for a child or young person, means all the duties, powers, responsibilities and authority parents have by law in relation to their children, including the following aspects of parental responsibility: (a) daily care responsibility for the child or young person; (b) long-term care responsibility for the child or young person.

16 Parents have parental responsibility (1) Each parent of a child or young person has parental responsibility for (2) To remove any doubt, parent includes a parent who is not an adult. (3) This section is subject to the following sections: (a) section 17 (Aspects of parental responsibility may be transferred); (b) section 18 (Aspects of parental responsibility may be shared).