ACTS AMENDMENT (LESBIAN AND GAY LAW REFORM) ACT 2002 (NO. 3 OF 2002) - SECT 81

ACTS AMENDMENT (LESBIAN AND GAY LAW REFORM) ACT 2002 (NO. 3 OF 2002) - SECT 81

81 .         Section 7 amended

                Section 7(1) is amended as follows:

            (a)         by deleting paragraph (a) and inserting the following paragraph instead —

“

            (a)         a person who was married to, or living as the de facto partner of, the deceased person immediately before the death of the deceased person;

”;

            (b)         in paragraph (b) —

                  (i)         by deleting “whose marriage to the deceased has been dissolved or annulled and”;

                  (ii)         by deleting “deceased,” and inserting instead —

“

                deceased as a former spouse or former de facto partner of the deceased

”;

            (c)         in paragraph (e) —

                  (i)         by deleting “or adoption,”; and

                  (ii)         by deleting the semicolon and inserting instead a full stop;

            (d)         by deleting paragraph (f).