Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

SEAFARERS REHABILITATION AND COMPENSATION ACT 1992 - SECT 16

                   For the purposes of this Act, relationships (including the relationship of being family or being relatives) are taken to include (without limitation):

                     (a)  relationships between de facto partners; and

                     (b)  relationships of child and parent that arise:

                              (i)  if someone is an exnuptial or adoptive child of a person; or

                             (ii)  because of the definitions of child and parent in section 3; and

                     (c)  relationships traced through relationships referred to in paragraphs (a) and (b).