Family Law Legislation Amendment (Family Violence and Other Measures) Act 2011 (189 of 2011)

Schedule 1   Amendments relating to family violence

Part 1   Amendments

Family Law Act 1975

1   Subsection 4(1) (definition of abuse )

Repeal the definition, substitute:

abuse , in relation to a child, means:

(a) an assault, including a sexual assault, of the child; or

(b) a person (the first person ) involving the child in a sexual activity with the first person or another person in which the child is used, directly or indirectly, as a sexual object by the first person or the other person, and where there is unequal power in the relationship between the child and the first person; or

(c) causing the child to suffer serious psychological harm, including (but not limited to) when that harm is caused by the child being subjected to, or exposed to, family violence; or

(d) serious neglect of the child.