Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

SUPERANNUATION INDUSTRY (SUPERVISION) ACT 1993 - SECT 10A

             (1)   Subject to subsection (3), for the purposes of this Act, 2 persons (whether or not related by family) have an interdependency relationship if:

                     (a)  they have a close personal relationship; and

                     (b)  they live together; and

                     (c)  one or each of them provides the other with financial support; and

                     (d)  one or each of them provides the other with domestic support and personal care.

             (2)  Subject to subsection (3), for the purposes of this Act, if:

                     (a)  2 persons (whether or not related by family) satisfy the requirement of paragraph (1)(a); and

                     (b)  they do not satisfy the other requirements of an interdependency relationship under subsection (1); and

                     (c)  the reason they do not satisfy the other requirements is that either or both of them suffer from a physical, intellectual or psychiatric disability;

they have an interdependency relationship .

             (3)  The regulations may specify:

                     (a)  matters that are, or are not, to be taken into account in determining under subsection (1) or (2) whether 2 persons have an interdependency relationship ; and

                     (b)  circumstances in which 2 persons have, or do not have, an interdependency relationship .