Victorian Numbered Acts

RELATIONSHIPS AMENDMENT ACT 2016 (NO. 4 OF 2016) - SECT 4

After section 3 of the Principal Act insert —

        " 3A     Meaning of related by family

    (1)     For the purposes of this Act, two adult persons are related by family , if—

        (a)     one is the child of the other, including an adopted child; or

        (b)     one is another descendant of the other, even if the relationship between them is traced through an adoptive parent; or

        (c)     the persons have a parent in common, including an adoptive parent of either or of both of the persons.

    (2)     Subsection (1) applies—

        (a)     even if an adoption has been declared void or is of no effect; and

        (b)     to an adoption under any law of a State, a Territory or another country relating to the adoption of children.

    (3)     Subsection (1) applies in relation to a child whose parentage is transferred as a result of an order, in the same way as it applies in relation to an adopted child, even if the parentage order is discharged or otherwise ceases to have effect if the order is—

        (a)     a substitute parentage order, or a corresponding surrogacy parentage order within the meaning of the Status of Children Act 1974 ; or

        (b)     an order under the law of another country in respect of the transfer of the parentage of a child.".