5Definition of *family member*

5 Definition of *family member*

(1) In this Act, family member of a person means—

(a) the spouse or domestic partner of the person; or

(b) a person who has or has had an intimate personal relationship with the person; or

(c) a person who is or has been a relative of the person; or

(d) a child who normally or regularly resides with the person; or

(e) a child of whom the person is a guardian; or

(f) another person who is or has been ordinarily a member of the household of the person.

(2) For the purposes of the definition of family member in subsection (1)—

domestic partner of a person means—

(a) a person who is in a registered relationship with the person; or

(b) an adult person to whom the person is not married but with whom the person is in a relationship as a couple where one or each of them provides personal or financial commitment and support of a domestic nature for the material benefit of the other, irrespective of their genders and whether or not they are living under the same roof, but does not include a person who provides domestic support and personal care to the person—

(a) for fee or reward; or

(b) on behalf of another person or an organisation (including a government or government agency, a body corporate or a charitable or benevolent organisation);

parent of a child includes a guardian of the child or a person with whom the child normally or regularly resides;

relative of a person means—

(a) a father, mother, grandfather, grandmother, step-father, step-mother, father-in-law or mother-in-law of the person; or

(b) a son, daughter, grandson, granddaughter, step-son,
step-daughter, son-in-law or
daughter-in-law of the person; or

(c) a brother, sister, half-brother, half‑sister, brother-in-law or
sister-in-law of the person; or

(d) an uncle, aunt, uncle-in-law or
aunt-in-law of the person; or

(e) a nephew or niece of the person; or

(f) a cousin of the person—

and includes, in the case of domestic partners, a person who would be such a relative if the domestic partners were married to each other;

spouse of a person means a person to whom the person is or was married.

(3) For the purposes of the definition of in subsection (2)—