Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) An informal care relationship exists between 2 persons if a person is or was dependent on another person (a carer) who helps the person in an activity of daily living (personal care activity).
Examples of personal care activities a carer may perform--
1 dressing or other personal grooming of the person
2 preparing the person's meals or helping the person with eating meals
3 shopping for the person's groceries
4 telephoning a specialist to make a medical appointment for the person
(2) The personal care activity must be required, or have been required, because of a disability, illness or impairment relating to the person.
(3) A relationship in which the personal care activity is or was provided under an arrangement the person entered into with someone other than the carer is not an informal care relationship, whether or not a fee is or was paid for the care.
Example for subsection (3)--
The relationship between a person and a nurse who visits the person each day to help with bathing and physiotherapy is not an informal care relationship if the nurse visits under an arrangement between the person and a community based in-home care entity.
(4) If the person entered into an arrangement with the carer and a fee is or was paid, or is to be paid, to or at the discretion of the carer under the arrangement for the personal care activity, the relationship existing between the persons is not an informal care relationship unless it is alleged that the circumstances relating to the arrangement or fee include an act mentioned in section 11(1)(a) to (e).
Example for subsection (4)--
The relationship that exists between a person and the person's carer is an informal care relationship if the carer demanded the proceeds of the person's pension or superannuation cheque and threatened to injure the person unless the proceeds were paid.
(5) However, an informal care relationship can not exist between a child and a parent of the child.
(6) In this section--
fee does not include--
(a) a pension or allowance in the carer's own name from the Commonwealth Government for providing care to a person; or
(b) an amount of money paid to a carer for goods purchased for the person that does not exceed the purchase price of the goods.
Example of paragraph (b)--
A friend of a person who has had a stroke may call on the person at the person's home every second day and bring fresh milk and bread and be given the price of the items.
parent, of a child, see Child Protection Act 1999, section 11.