Same-Sex Relationships (Equal Treatment in Commonwealth Laws - General Law Reform) Act 2008 (144 of 2008)
Schedule 6 Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
Part 2 Amendments commencing on 1 July 2009
A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999
18 At the end of section 23
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Parents of relationship children
(6) If a child (other than an adopted child) is a relationship child of a person because he or she is a child of the person, and of another person, within the meaning of the Family Law Act 1975, the person and the other person are taken to be the child's only parents for the purposes of paragraph (c) of the definition of qualifying period in subsection (5).
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