Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) The person may disclose the information or document to an officer or employee of a police force or service, fire service, ambulance service or other organisation providing emergency services if the person reasonably believes that the disclosure is necessary to assist in the notification of the next of kin of a person who is seriously injured or who has died.
(2) In determining for the purposes of subsection (1) whether a person is next of kin of another person, the following persons are also to be taken into account:
(a) a de facto partner of the person within the meaning of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 ;
(b) someone who is the child of the person, or of whom the person is the child, because of subsection (3);
(c) anyone else who would be a relative of the person because someone mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b) is taken into account.
(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2)(b), a person (the first person ) is the child of another person because of this subsection if the first person is a child of the other person within the meaning of the Family Law Act 1975 .