5AMeaning of *family member*

5A Meaning of *family member*

(1) For the purposes of this Act, each of the following persons is a family member of a person (the relevant person)—

(a) a person who is or has been married to the relevant person;

(b) a person who is the relevant person's—

(i) parent or grandparent; or

(ii) child or grandchild; or

(iii) sibling; or

(iv) first cousin;

(c) a person who is—

(i) the sibling of one of the person's parents; or

(ii) the child of one of the person's siblings;

(d) if the relevant person has or has had a domestic partner—

(i) that domestic partner; and

(ii) a person who would be a family member under paragraph (b) or (c) if the relevant person and the domestic partner were or had been married;

(e) a person with whom the relevant person has or has had an intimate personal relationship;

(f) a child of a person with whom the relevant person has or has had an intimate personal relationship;

(g) if the relevant person and another person both have, or have had, parental responsibility for the same child, that other person;

(h) a person with whom the relevant person normally or regularly resided when either of them was a child;

(i) a person who is or has been the relevant person's guardian;

(j) a person for whom the relevant person is or has been a guardian;

(k) a person to whom the relevant person provides, or has provided, domestic support and personal care, other than support and care provided—

(i) for fee or reward; or

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

(l) a person who provides, or has provided, the relevant person with support and care described in paragraph (k);

(m) if the relevant person—

(i) is descended from an Aboriginal person or a Torres Strait Islander; and

(ii) identifies as an Aboriginal person or a Torres Strait Islander; and

(iii) is accepted as an Aboriginal person or as a Torres Strait Islander by an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander community—

a person who is or has been a family member of the relevant person under Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander concepts of family (including extended kinship relationships and family structures).

(2) For the purposes of subsection (1)(b) and (c), it does not matter whether the relationship between the relevant person and the other person is, or depends on—