13Meaning of associate

13  Meaning of associate  (1) Associate of a person (the first person) includes each of the following:  (a) a person who is or was a consultant, adviser, partner, representative on retainer, employer or employee of:  (i) the first person; or  (ii) any corporation of which the first person is an officer or employee or in which the first person holds shares;  (b) a spouse, de facto partner, child, parent, grandparent, grandchild, sibling, aunt, uncle, niece, nephew or cousin of the first person;  (c) a child, parent, grandparent, grandchild, sibling, aunt, uncle, niece, nephew or cousin of a spouse or de facto partner of the first person;  (d) any other person not mentioned in paragraph (a), (b) or (c) who is or was:  (i) directly or indirectly concerned in; or  (ii) in a position to control or influence the conduct of;   a business or undertaking of:  (iii) the first person; or  (iv) a corporation of which the first person is an officer or employee, or in which the first person holds shares;  (e) a corporation:  (i) of which the first person, or any of the other persons mentioned in paragraphs (a), (b), (c) and (d), is an officer or employee; or  (ii) in which the first person, or any of those other persons, holds shares;  (f) if the first person is a body corporate—another body corporate that is a related body corporate (within the meaning of the Corporations Act 2001) of the first person.  (2) Without limiting who is a child of another person for the purposes of this Act, a person is the child of another person if the person is:  (a) a stepchild or adopted child of the other person; or  (b) a child of the other person within the meaning of the Family Law Act 1975.  (3) Without limiting who is a stepchild of another person for the purposes of this Act, a child of a de facto partner of the other person is the stepchild of the other person if the child would be the other person’s stepchild except that the other person is not legally married to the partner.  (4) Without limiting who is a parent of another person for the purposes of this Act, a person is the parent of another person if the other person is a child of the person because of the definition of child in subsection (2).  (5) For the purposes of this Act, if one person is the child of another person because of the definition of child in subsection (2), relationships traced to or through that person are to be determined on the basis that the person is the child of the other person.