South Australian Current Acts South Australian Current Acts (1) In this
Division—
"abuse" has the same meaning as in the Intervention Orders (Prevention of
Abuse) Act 2009 and, for the purposes of this definition—
(a) a
single act may amount to abuse; and
(b) a
number of acts that form part of a pattern of behaviour may amount to abuse,
even though some or all of those acts, when viewed in isolation, may appear to
be minor or trivial; and
(c) a
person may commit an act of abuse by causing or allowing another person to
commit the act or to take part in the commission of the act;
"family violence", in relation to a person, means an act or acts of abuse
committed against the person by a member of the person's family;
"member of a person's family"—the following persons are members of a
person's family:
(a) a
person who is, or was, a spouse of the person;
(b) a
person who is, or was, a domestic partner of the person;
(c) a
person who is, or was, in an intimate personal relationship with the person
(not being a marriage or domestic partnership);
(d) a
person who is, or was, a parent, grandparent or step-parent of the person;
(e) a
sibling or step-sibling of the person;
(f) a
child, grandchild or step-child of the person;
(g) a
person who, according to Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander kinship rules,
is a member of a culturally recognised family group of the person;
(h) a
guardian of the person;
(i)
a carer of the person (within the meaning of the
Carers Recognition Act 2005 );
(j) a
person (not being a person referred to in a preceding paragraph) who is, or
was, a member of the household of the person;
(k) any
other person prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this paragraph,
and "family member" has a corresponding meaning.
(2) For the purposes
of this Division, a reference to proceedings related to the offence includes a
reference to any committal or interlocutory proceedings related to the
offence.