Seafarers Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1992
16Certain family relationships
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16 Certain family relationships
For the purposes of this Act, relationships (including the relationship of being family or being relatives) are taken to include (without limitation): (a) relationships between de facto partners; and (b) relationships of child and parent that arise: (i) if someone is an exnuptial or adoptive child of a person; or (ii) because of the definitions of child and parent in section 3; and (c) relationships traced through relationships referred to in paragraphs (a) and (b).