sec.20Meaning of informal care relationship

### sec.20 Meaning of informal care relationship An informal care relationship exists between 2 persons if 1 of them is or was dependent on the other person (the carer ) for help in an activity of daily living. dressing or other personal grooming of a person preparing a person’s meals or helping a person with eating meals shopping for a person’s groceries telephoning a specialist to make a medical appointment for a person An informal care relationship does not exist between a child and a parent of a child. An informal care relationship does not exist between 2 persons if 1 person helps the other person in an activity of daily living under a commercial arrangement. The relationship between a person and a nurse who visits the person each day to help with bathing and physiotherapy is not an informal care relationship because the nurse visits the person under a commercial arrangement made between the person and the nurse’s employer. For subsection (3) — a commercial arrangement may exist even if a person does not pay a fee for the help provided under the arrangement; and The provision of help by a voluntary organisation for which a person does not pay a fee may still be under a commercial arrangement. an arrangement is not a commercial arrangement because 1 person receives a pension or allowance, or reimbursement for the purchase price of goods, for the help provided under the arrangement; and an arrangement is not a commercial arrangement if 1 person pays a fee for the help provided under the arrangement because of domestic violence committed by the other person. (sec.20-ssec.1) An informal care relationship exists between 2 persons if 1 of them is or was dependent on the other person (the carer ) for help in an activity of daily living. dressing or other personal grooming of a person preparing a person’s meals or helping a person with eating meals shopping for a person’s groceries telephoning a specialist to make a medical appointment for a person (sec.20-ssec.2) An informal care relationship does not exist between a child and a parent of a child. (sec.20-ssec.3) An informal care relationship does not exist between 2 persons if 1 person helps the other person in an activity of daily living under a commercial arrangement. The relationship between a person and a nurse who visits the person each day to help with bathing and physiotherapy is not an informal care relationship because the nurse visits the person under a commercial arrangement made between the person and the nurse’s employer. (sec.20-ssec.4) For subsection (3) — a commercial arrangement may exist even if a person does not pay a fee for the help provided under the arrangement; and The provision of help by a voluntary organisation for which a person does not pay a fee may still be under a commercial arrangement. an arrangement is not a commercial arrangement because 1 person receives a pension or allowance, or reimbursement for the purchase price of goods, for the help provided under the arrangement; and an arrangement is not a commercial arrangement if 1 person pays a fee for the help provided under the arrangement because of domestic violence committed by the other person. - • dressing or other personal grooming of a person - • preparing a person’s meals or helping a person with eating meals - • shopping for a person’s groceries - • telephoning a specialist to make a medical appointment for a person - (a) a commercial arrangement may exist even if a person does not pay a fee for the help provided under the arrangement; and Example for paragraph (a) — The provision of help by a voluntary organisation for which a person does not pay a fee may still be under a commercial arrangement. - (b) an arrangement is not a commercial arrangement because 1 person receives a pension or allowance, or reimbursement for the purchase price of goods, for the help provided under the arrangement; and - (c) an arrangement is not a commercial arrangement if 1 person pays a fee for the help provided under the arrangement because of domestic violence committed by the other person.