Same-Sex Relationships (Equal Treatment in Commonwealth Laws - General Law Reform) Act 2008 (144 of 2008)

Schedule 11   Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government

Part 4   Other amendments

Navigation Act 1912

27   At the end of section 6

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(8) For the purposes of this Act, members of a person's family are taken to include the following (without limitation):

(a) a de facto partner of the person;

(b) someone who is the child of the person, or of whom the person is the child, because of the definition of child in this section;

(c) anyone else who would be a member of the person's family because someone mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b) is taken to be a member of the person's family.