Victorian Numbered Regulations Victorian Numbered RegulationsIn these Regulations—
"Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander" means a person who—
(a) is of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent; and
(b) identifies as an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander; and
(c) is accepted as an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander by an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander community;
"domestic relationship" means—
(a) a registered domestic relationship; or
(b) the relationship between 2 adult persons who are not married to each other but are a couple where one or each of the persons in the relationship provides personal or financial commitment and support of a domestic nature for the material benefit of the other, irrespective of their genders and whether they are living under the same roof , but does not include a relationship in which a person provides domestic support and personal care to the other person—
(i) for fee or reward; or
(ii) on behalf of another person or an organisation (including a government or government agency, a body corporate or a charitable or benevolent organisation);
"donor treatment procedure" has the same meaning as in section 17B(4) of the Act;
"registered ART provider" has the same meaning as in section 3 of the Assisted Reproductive Treatment Act 2008 ;
"registered domestic relationship" means a registered domestic relationship within the meaning of the Relationships Act 2008 ;
"relationship partner" of a person means—
(a) a person's spouse; or
(b) a person with whom the person is in a domestic relationship;
"relationship status" means a person's status of being—
(a) never validly married; or
(b) married; or
(c) in a domestic relationship; or
(d) divorced; or
(e) widowed; or
(f) in relation to a domestic relationship, a person whose relationship partner has died;
"the Act" means the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1996 .