South Australian Numbered Acts South Australian Numbered Acts5—Amendment of section 5AA—Aggravated offences
(1) Section 5AA(1)(g)—delete paragraph (g) and substitute:
(g) the offender committed the offence knowing that the victim of the offence was a person with whom the offender was, or was formerly, in a relationship;
(2) Section 5AA—after subsection (4) insert:
(4a) Two people will be taken to be "in a relationship" for the purposes of subsection (1)(g) if—
(a) they are married to each other; or
(b) they are domestic partners; or
(c) they are in some other form of intimate personal relationship in which their lives are interrelated and the actions of 1 affects the other; or
(d) 1 is the child, stepchild or grandchild, or is under the guardianship, of the other (regardless of age); or
(e) 1 is a child, stepchild or grandchild, or is under the guardianship, of a person who is or was formerly in a relationship with the other under paragraph (a)
, (b)
or (c)
(regardless of age); or
(f) 1 is a child and the other is a person who acts in loco parentis in relation to the child; or
(g) 1 is a child who normally or regularly resides or stays with the other; or
(h) they are brothers or sisters or brother and sister; or
(i) they are otherwise related to each other by or through blood, marriage, a domestic partnership or adoption; or
(j) they are related according to Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander kinship rules or are both members of some other culturally recognised family group; or
(k) 1 is the carer (within the meaning of the Carers Recognition Act 2005
) of the other.