Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

FOREIGN ACQUISITIONS AND TAKEOVERS ACT 1975 - SECT 6

             (1)  For the purposes of this Act, the following persons are associates of a person:

                     (a)  the person's spouse or de facto partner (within the meaning of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 ), or a parent or remoter lineal ancestor, child or remoter issue, brother or sister of the person;

                     (b)  any partner of the person;

                     (c)  any corporation of which the person is an officer;

                     (d)  where the person is a corporation--any officer of the corporation;

                     (e)  any employee or employer of the person;

                      (f)  any officer of any corporation of which the person is an officer;

                     (g)  any employee of a natural person of whom the person is an employee;

                     (h)  any corporation whose directors are accustomed or under an obligation, whether formal or informal, to act in accordance with the directions, instructions or wishes of the person or, where the person is a corporation, of the directors of the person;

                      (i)  any corporation in accordance with the directions, instructions or wishes of which, or of the directors of which, the person is accustomed or under an obligation, whether formal or informal, to act;

                      (j)  any corporation in which the person holds a substantial interest;

                     (k)  where the person is a corporation--a person who holds a substantial interest in the corporation;

                    (ka)  the trustee of a trust estate in which the person holds a substantial interest;

                    (kb)  where the person is the trustee of a trust estate--a person who holds a substantial interest in the trust estate;

                      (l)  any person who is, by virtue of this section, an associate of any other person who is an associate of the person (including a person who is an associate of the person by another application or other applications of this paragraph).

             (2)  In this Act:

"child" : without limiting who is a child of a person for the purposes of this Act, someone is the child of a person if he or she is a child of the person within the meaning of the Family Law Act 1975 .

"parent" : without limiting who is a parent of a person for the purposes of this Act, someone is the parent of a person if the person is his or her child because of the definition of child in this section.

             (3)  For the purposes of paragraph (1)(a), if one person is the child of another person because of the definition of child in this section, relationships traced to or through that person are to be determined on the basis that the person is the child of the other person.