Victorian Numbered Acts

ADOPTION AMENDMENT (ADOPTION BY SAME-SEX COUPLES) ACT 2015 (NO. 68 OF 2015) - SECT 8

    (1)     In section 12 of the Principal Act, for "whose spouse or de facto spouse" substitute "whose spouse or domestic partner".

    (2)     For section 12(d) and (e) of the Principal Act substitute —

    "(d)     in the case of an order in favour of 2 persons who are in a domestic relationship with each other, neither of those persons, at the time that the order is made—

              (i)     is married to another person; or

              (ii)     is in a registered domestic relationship with another person; and

        (e)     in the case of an order in favour of a person who is in a domestic relationship and whose domestic partner is a relative of the child, neither that person nor that person's domestic partner, at the time that the order is made—

              (i)     is married to another person; or

              (ii)     is in a registered domestic relationship with another person.".