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 3   Carriers' liability amendments if Montreal Convention amendments commence later

Civil Aviation (Carriers' Liability) Act 1959

13   Subsection 12(5)

Repeal the subsection, substitute:

(5) A reference in subsection (3) to the members of the passenger's family is taken to be a reference to the wife or husband, de facto partner, parents, step-parents, grandparents, brothers, sisters, half-brothers, half-sisters, children, step-children and grandchildren of the passenger. For this purpose, relationships are taken to include:

(a) ex-nuptial relationships;

(b) relationships by adoption;

(c) relationships of child and parent that arise because of the definitions of child and parent in section 5;

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