Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) A parent, of a child, is any of the following persons—
(a) the child's mother;
(b) the child's father;
(c) a person who exercises parental responsibility for the child.
(2) However, a person standing in the place of a parent of a child on a temporary basis is not a parent of the child.
(3) A parent of an Aboriginal child includes a person who, under Aboriginal tradition, is regarded as a parent of the child.
(4) A parent of a Torres Strait Islander child includes a person who, under Island custom, is regarded as a parent of the child.
(5) Despite subsections (1), (3) and (4), if—
(a) a person is granted guardianship of a child under the Child Protection Act 1999; or
(b) a person otherwise exercises parental responsibility for a child under a decision or order of a federal court or a court of a State;
then a reference in this Act to a parent of a child is a reference only to a person mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b).