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 1   Amendments commencing on the day after Royal Assent

Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006

6   At the end of Division 694

Add:

694-115 Certain family relationships

For the purposes of this Act, relationships (including the relationship of being family) are taken to include (without limitation):

(a) relationships between de facto partners (within the meaning of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901); and

(b) relationships of child and parent that arise:

(i) if someone is an exnuptial or adoptive child of a person; or

(ii) if someone is the child of a person because of the definition of child in this Act; and

(c) relationships traced through relationships referred to in paragraphs (a) and (b).