Same-Sex Relationships (Equal Treatment in Commonwealth Laws - General Law Reform) Act 2008 (144 of 2008)

Schedule 13   Prime Minister and Cabinet

Privacy Act 1988

1   At the end of section 6

Add:

(10) For the purposes of this Act, a reference to family in the definition of credit in subsection 6(1), and in sections 6D and 16E, in relation to any individual is taken to include the following (without limitation):

(a) a de facto partner of the individual (within the meaning of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901);

(b) someone who is the child of the person, or of whom the person is the child, because of the definition of child in subsection (11);

(c) anyone else who would be a member of the individual's family if someone mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b) is taken to be a member of the individual's family.

(11) In this section:

child : without limiting who is a child of a person for the purposes of subsection (10), someone is the child of a person if he or she is a child of the person within the meaning of the Family Law Act 1975.