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

39   At the end of section 158

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(8) In determining for the purposes of subsections (6) and (7) whether a person is next-of-kin of another person, the following persons are also to be taken into account:

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

(b) anyone else who would be a relative of the person because someone mentioned in paragraph (a) is taken into account.