DOMESTIC RELATIONSHIPS ACT 1994 - SECT 3 Meaning of domestic relationship

DOMESTIC RELATIONSHIPS ACT 1994 - SECT 3

    (1)     In this Act:

"domestic relationship" means a personal relationship between 2 adults in which one provides personal or financial commitment and support of a domestic nature for the material benefit of the other and includes a domestic partnership but does not include a legal marriage.

Note     For the meaning of domestic partnership , see the Legislation Act

, s 169. It includes a civil union and a civil partnership.

    (2)     For subsection (1)—

        (a)     a personal relationship may exist between people although they are not members of the same household; and

        (b)     a personal relationship is not taken to exist between people only because one of them provides a service for the other—

              (i)     for fee or reward; or

              (ii)     on behalf of another person (including a government or body corporate); or

              (iii)     on behalf of an organisation the principal objects or purposes of which are charitable or benevolent.