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

Schedule 5   Education, Employment and Workplace Relations

Higher Education Support Act 2003

9   At the end of Schedule 1

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(2) For the purposes of paragraph (e) of the definition of Overseas student in subclause (1), a representative's relatives include (without limitation):

(a) an exnuptial or adoptive child of the representative, or someone of whom the representative is an exnuptial or adoptive child; and

(b) someone who is a child of the representative, or of whom the representative is a child, because of subclause (3); and

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

(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2)(b), one person is the child of another person because of this subclause if he or she is a child of the other person within the meaning of the Family Law Act 1975.