Same-Sex Relationships (Equal Treatment in Commonwealth Laws - Superannuation) Act 2008 (134 of 2008)

Schedule 3   Defence amendments

Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Act 1973

2   Subsection 3(1) (after subparagraph (a)(ii) of the definition of child )

Insert:

(iii) was, immediately before the member's death, someone who would have been the stepchild of the member except that the member was not legally married to a spouse who survives the member; or

(iv) is a child of the member within the meaning of the Family Law Act 1975; and


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