Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00015:section:11
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00015
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 11
Character Range: 104013–106288

11  Meaning of associate
 (1) Associate of a person (the first person) includes each of the following:
 (a) a person who is or was a consultant, adviser, partner, representative on retainer, employer or employee of:
 (i) the first person; or
 (ii) any corporation of which the first person is an officer or employee or in which the first person holds shares;
 (b) a spouse, de facto partner, child, parent, grandparent, grandchild, sibling, aunt, uncle, niece, nephew or cousin of the first person;
 (c) a child, parent, grandparent, grandchild, sibling, aunt, uncle, niece, nephew or cousin of a spouse or de facto partner of the first person;
 (d) any other person not mentioned in paragraph (a), (b) or (c) who is or was:
 (i) directly or indirectly concerned in; or
 (ii) in a position to control or influence the conduct of;
  a business or undertaking of:
 (iii) the first person; or
 (iv) a corporation of which the first person is an officer or employee, or in which the first person holds shares;
 (e) a corporation:
 (i) of which the first person, or any of the other persons mentioned in paragraphs (a), (b), (c) and (d), is an officer or employee; or
 (ii) in which the first person, or any of those other persons, holds shares;
 (f) if the first person is a body corporate—another body corporate that is a related body corporate (within the meaning of the Corporations Act 2001) of the first person.
 (2) Without limiting who is a child of a person for the purposes of this section, each of the following is the child of a person:
 (a) a stepchild or adopted child of the person;
 (b) someone who would be the stepchild of the person except that the person is not legally married to the person's partner;
 (c) someone is a child of the person within the meaning of the Family Law Act 1975.
 (3) Without limiting who is a parent of a person for the purposes of this Act, someone is the parent of a person if the person is his or her child because of the definition of child in subsection (2).
 (4) For the purposes of this section, if one person is the child of another person because of the definition of child in subsection (2), relationships traced to or through that person are to be determined on the basis that the person is the child of the other person.