22Meaning of associate

22  Meaning of associate

 (1) Associate of a person (the first person) includes each of the following:

 (a) a spouse, de facto partner, child (who is at least 18 years old) or parent of the first person;

 (b) a person not mentioned in paragraph (a) 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 (within the meaning of the Corporations Act 2001) or employee, or in which the first person holds shares;

 (c) a corporation of which the first person, or any of the other persons mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b), is an officer (within the meaning of the Corporations Act 2001) or employee;

 (d) 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 a person for the purposes of this section, each of the following is the child of a person:

 (a) a stepchild or adopted child of the person;

 (b) someone who would be the stepchild of the person except that the person is not legally married to the person’s partner;

 (c) someone who is a child of the person within the meaning of the Family Law Act 1975.

 (3) Without limiting who is a parent of another person for the purposes of this section, a person is the parent of another person if the other person is the person’s child because of the definition of child in subsection (2).