Victorian Numbered Acts

RELATIONSHIPS AMENDMENT (CARING RELATIONSHIPS) ACT 2009 (NO. 4 OF 2009) - SECT 8

In section 5 of the Principal Act—

        (a)     insert the following definitions—

""legal practitioner's certificate" means a certificate given by a legal practitioner in accordance with section 7(ba);

"registrable caring relationship" means a relationship (other than a registered relationship) between two adult persons who are not a couple or married to each other and who may or may not otherwise be related by family where one or each of the persons in the relationship provides personal or financial commitment and support of a domestic nature for the material benefit of the other, whether or not they are living under the same roof, but does not include a relationship in which a person provides domestic support and personal care to the other person—

        (a)     for fee or reward; or

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

        (b)     in the definition of "registrable relationship", after " registrable " (where first occurring) insert " domestic ".