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 2   Carriers' liability amendments if Montreal Convention amendments commence earlier

Civil Aviation (Carriers' Liability) Act 1959

7   Subsection 5(1)

Insert:

step-parent : without limiting who is a step-parent of a person for the purposes of this Act, someone who is a de facto partner of a parent of the person is the step-parent of the person, if he or she would be the person's step-parent except that he or she is not legally married to the person's parent.