Ivana Bacik (Independent)

That answers the earlier point because in order to sign a statutory declaration to be a joint guardian one does not have to produce the birth certificate or show that the father was named. That is what I thought and I am grateful that it has been clarified and that in order to sign the statutory declaration giving the birth father rights of guardianship jointly with the mother there is no requirement that the father be named in the birth certificate. That is remedied by the Civil Registration Act which strengthens my argument that there could be a similar mechanism for the non-birth partner of a birth mother.