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

7   At the end of clause 2 of Schedule 3

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2.7 For the purposes of the definition of relative in subclause 2.6, relationships to an individual may also be traced to or through another individual who is:

(a) a de facto partner of the first individual; or

(b) the child of the first individual because of the definition of child in that subclause.

2.8 For the purposes of the definition of sibling in subclause 2.6, an individual is also a sibling of another individual if a relationship referred to in that definition can be traced through a parent of either or both of them.