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).