Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A05014:section:6:p8
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A05014
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 6 (pt 8/86)
Character Range: 76011–78735

force in the State or Territory in which the act constituting the assault occurs; or

    (b) a person involving the child in a sexual activity with that person or another person in which the child is used, directly or indirectly, as a sexual object by the first-mentioned person or the other person, and where there is unequal power in the relationship between the child and the first-mentioned person;

'adopted', in relation to a child, means adopted under the law of any place (whether in or out of Australia) relating to the adoption of children;

'artificial conception procedure' includes:

(a) artificial insemination; and

(b) the implantation of an embryo in the body of a woman;

'birth' includes stillbirth;

'child' includes an adopted child and a stillborn child;

'childbirth maintenance period', in relation to the birth of a child, means the period:

(a) commencing:

(i) in a case where the mother:

(A) works in paid employment; and

         (B) is advised by a medical practitioner to stop working for medical reasons related to her pregnancy; and

         (C) stops working after being so advised and more than 2 months before the child is due to be born;

      on the day on which she stops working; or

(ii) in any other case—2 months before the child is due to be born; and

(b) ending 3 months after the child's birth;

'child maintenance order' has the meaning given by subsection 64B(5);

'child maintenance provisions', in relation to a parenting plan, has the meaning given by subsection 63C(5);

'child welfare law' means a law of a State or Territory prescribed, or included in a class of laws of a State or Territory prescribed, for the purposes of this definition;

'child welfare officer', in relation to a State or Territory, means:

    (a) a person who, because he or she holds, or performs the duties of, a prescribed office of the Slate or Territory, has responsibilities in relation to a child welfare law of the State or Territory; or

    (b) a person authorised in writing by such a person for the purposes of this Part;

'child welfare provisions', in relation to a parenting plan, has the meaning given by subsection 63C(4);

'contact order' has the meaning given by subsection 64B(4);

'de facto relationship' means the relationship between a man and a woman who live with each other as spouses on a genuine domestic basis although not legally married to each other;

'education' includes apprenticeship or vocational training;

'family violence' 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,