Relationships Register Act 2016

A law of another State or a Territory of the Commonwealth, or of another country, that, in accordance with the general requirements, provides for the registration or the formal recognition of a relationship may be declared by the regulations to be a corresponding law under this

Act.

For the purposes of subsection (1), the general requirements for a corresponding law are that, to be registered or formally recognised under that law, a relationship—

must be between 2 adult persons; and

must have been entered into consensually; and

must not be between persons who are related by family;

and

must not be entered into by a person who is already in a union that is recognised as a marriage under the Marriage Act 1961 of the Commonwealth;

and

must not be entered into by a person who is already in a relationship that is registered or formally recognised under that law.