Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Maintenance Act 1965 - SECT 3

Definitions

3. Definitions



(1) In this Act unless inconsistent with the context or subject-matter-

adopted means-

   (a)  adopted in accordance with the law of Victoria or the law of another
        State or of a Territory of the Commonwealth; or

   (b)  adopted in a country outside Australia and the Territories of the
        Commonwealth if the adoption was effective according to the law of
        that country and the adoption is recognized by the law of Victoria as
        having effect in Victoria;

authorised deposit-taking institution has the same meaning as in the
Banking Act 1959 of the Commonwealth;



child, in relation to any person or persons includes an adopted child of that
person or (as the case may be) of those persons, but does not include a child
of that person or those persons adopted by another person or persons; and
mother, father and parent, in relation to a child, shall be construed
accordingly;

child of the family, in relation to the parties to a marriage or to either of
them and whether or not either party to the marriage is dead, means-

   (a)  any child of both parties; and

   (b)  any child of either party who has been accepted as one of the family
        by the other party- and mother, father and parent, in relation to a
        child of the family, shall be construed accordingly;

Commonwealth means the Commonwealth of Australia;

Court means the Magistrates' Court;







preliminary expenses in respect of the confinement of a woman means the
expenses of the maintenance of the woman during the period of two months
immediately preceding the confinement, reasonable medical surgical hospital
and nursing expenses attendant upon the confinement, and the expenses of the
maintenance of the woman and the child or children born to the woman for three
months immediately after birth;

prescribed means prescribed by rules made under this Act;

Territory of the Commonwealth includes a Territory under the trusteeship of
the Commonwealth;

Victoria means the State of Victoria;

woman includes girl.

(2) For the purposes of the interpretation of child of the family a child of
either party to the marriage shall, in the absence of proof to the contrary,
be taken to have been accepted by the other party as one of the family if it
is proved that at any time the child was ordinarily a member of the family
household.

(3) For the purposes of this Act a man and a woman married by a subsisting
marriage, whether monogamous or polygamous, shall, if the marriage is lawful
and binding in the place where it was solemnized be regarded as husband and
wife.

(4) Any reference in this Act to an order shall be read and construed, where
the order has been varied, as a reference to the order as varied from time to
time.

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