Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A05014:section:6:p9
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A05014
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 6 (pt 9/86)
Character Range: 78508–81274

means conduct, whether actual or threatened, by a person towards, or towards the property of, a member of the person's family that causes that or any other member of the person's family to fear for, or to be apprehensive about, his or her personal well being or safety;

'family violence order' means an order (including an interim order) made under a prescribed law of a State or Territory to protect a person from family violence;

'guardian', in relation to a child, includes a person who has been granted (whether alone or jointly with another person or other persons) guardianship of the child under the law of the Commonwealth or of a State or Territory;

'has', in relation to a residence order, a contact order or a specific issues order, has the meaning given by subsection 64B(8);

'interests', in relation to a child, includes matters related to the care, welfare or development of the child;

'made in favour', in relation to a residence order, a contact order or a specific issues order, has the meaning given by subsection 64B(7);

'medical expenses' includes medical, surgical, dental, diagnostic, hospital, nursing, pharmaceutical and physiotherapy expenses;

'medical practitioner' means a person registered or licensed as a medical practitioner under a law of a State or Territory that provides for the registration or licensing of medical practitioners;

'member of the Court personnel' means:

    (a) a court counsellor; or

    (b) a court mediator; or

    (c) an approved arbitrator; or

    (d) a welfare officer; or

    (e) the Registrar or a Deputy Registrar of a Registry of the Family Court of Australia; or

(f) the Registrar or a Deputy Registrar of the Family Court of Western Australia;

'member of the family', in relation to a person, has, for the purposes of this section, paragraphs 68F(2)(i) and (j) and section 68J, the meaning given by subsection (2);

'parent', in relation to a child who has been adopted, means an adoptive parent of the child;

'parentage testing order' has the meaning given by subsection 69W(1);

'parentage testing procedure' means a medical procedure prescribed, or included in a class of medical procedures prescribed, for the purposes of this definition;

'parental responsibility' has the meaning given by section 61B; '

'parenting order' has the meaning given by subsection 64B(1); '

'parenting plan' has the meaning given by subsection 63C(1);

'prescribed adopting parent', in relation to a child, means:

(a) a parent of the child; or

(b) the spouse of, or a person in a de facto relationship with, a parent of the child; or

   (c) a parent of the child and either his or her spouse or a person in a de facto relationship with the parent;

'prescribed child welfare authority', in relation