South Australian Consolidated Acts South Australian Consolidated Acts4—Application of Act to children
(1) This Act applies
to children in the same way as to persons of full age, subject to the
following:
(a) a
right conferred on a person under this Act may, if the person is a child under
16 years of age, be exercised by a parent or guardian of the child on behalf
of the child;
(b) an
obligation under this Act to give a document to a person is, if the person is
a child under 16 years of age, to be treated as an obligation to give the
document to a parent or guardian of the child, and operates to the exclusion
of any further obligation under this Act to send or give the document to a
guardian, medical agent, relative, carer or friend.
(2)
Subsection (1) does not affect the operation of a provision of this Act
that expressly relates to a child or children.