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=====Authorizations to exercise parental responsibilities===== | =====Authorizations to exercise parental responsibilities===== | ||
Under s. 43(2) of the ''Family Law Act'', a guardian who is temporarily unable to exercise certain parental responsibilities may authorize someone to exercise those responsibilities on his or her behalf, including a child's caregiver or a member of the child's extended family. Such authorizations must be made in writing, and should say exactly what it is that the authorized person can do. | |||
The parental responsibilities that someone can exercise under a written authorization are: | |||
*making day-to-day decisions affecting the child and having day-to-day care, control and supervision of the child, | |||
*making decisions respecting with whom the child will live and associate, | |||
*making decisions respecting the child's education and participation in extracurricular activities, | |||
*giving, refusing or withdrawing consent to medical, dental and other health-related treatments for the child, | |||
*applying for a passport, licence or permit for the child, | |||
*giving, refusing or withdrawing consent for the child, if consent is required, | |||
*receiving and responding to any notice that a parent or guardian is entitled or required by law to receive, and | |||
*requesting and receiving from third parties health, education or other information respecting the child. | |||
Authorizations like these are mostly used when the child is to go somewhere else to go to school and the guardian needs to make arrangements for the child to be looked after in the place where the school is, when the guardian is seriously ill but going to recover, and when the guardian is going to be out commission for awhile recovering from a surgery or treatment. | |||
=====Contact with a child===== | =====Contact with a child===== | ||
