Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00162:section:19:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00162
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 19 (pt 2/2)
Character Range: 34560–35893

support supplement or a veteran payment; and
 (d) a person is partnered (partner getting pension) if the person is a member of a couple and the person's partner is receiving:
 (i) a social security pension; or
 (ii) a service pension, income support supplement or a veteran payment; and
 (e) a person is partnered (partner getting benefit) if the person is a member of a couple and the person's partner is receiving a social security benefit; and
 (f) a person is partnered (partner in gaol) if the person is a member of a couple and the person's partner is:
 (i) in gaol; or
 (ii) undergoing psychiatric confinement because the partner has been charged with committing an offence.
Note 1: For social security pension see subsection 23(1).
Note 2: For in gaol see subsection 23(5).
Note 3: For psychiatric confinement see subsections 23(8) and (9).

Prohibited relationship
 (12) For the purposes of this Act, a person and his or her partner are within a prohibited relationship if the person is:
 (a) an ancestor or a descendant of the partner; or
 (b) a brother, sister, half‑brother or half‑sister of the partner.
 (13) For the purposes of subsection (12), a child who is, or has ever been, an adopted child of a person is taken to be the natural child of that person and the person is taken to be the natural parent of the child.