14Commissioner to establish proportions of care

1. The Commissioner must establish, for each qualifying child to whom a properly completed application relates, the proportion of ongoing daily care that each parent and non-parent carer identified in the application, or in other information provided following a request under section 13(2), provides to the child.

2. If 2 or more people who live together each provide ongoing daily care to a child,—

3. only 1 of those people may be treated as a carer, and the care provided by the other persons must be treated as part of the care provided by the first person; and
4. if 1 of the people is a parent of the child, that person must be treated as the carer.

5. The parents of a qualifying child in respect of whom payments are being made under section 363 of the Oranga Tamariki Act 1989 are deemed to provide no ongoing daily care to the child.