Cap. 614 Art. 2Interpretation.          Cap. 16.    Cap. 16.  Cap. 55.

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires:

"cohabitant" means a person who is continually and habitually living with another person in the cohabitation home as a couple, and who enters into a public deed of cohabitation with the other person, provided that he is not already legally bound to another person;

"cohabitation home" means that home within which the cohabitants live together, belonging to either one of the cohabitants or to both of them, in whichever portion, and whether or not they possess it by title of lease or any other title, whether jointly or separately;

"community" shall have the meaning assigned to it in Part III;

"Court" means the Civil Court (Family Section) or any other Court which from time to time, shall have the competence to decide on family matters;

"dependent child" means the children of the cohabitants, or of any one of the cohabitants, or in regard to whom any one of them is acting and who still have the right to in loco parentis, receive maintenance from the said cohabitants:

Provided that refers to the in loco parentis cohabitant who acts with regard to another in loco parentis person’s child, by reason of the cohabitation of such person with a parent of that child, where the other parent of that child shall have, at any time before or during the cohabitation, died or was declared as an absentee according to the provisions of Title VII

of Book First of the Civil Code, or is unknown:

Provided also that this shall be without prejudice to the obligations of the natural parents of the child and shall in any case be without prejudice to the provisions of article 149 of the

Civil Code.

"Minister" means the Minister responsible for justice;

"notary" means a public official vested with all the powers conferred to him by the Notarial Profession and Notarial Archives Act;

"Regulation on registered partnerships" means Council Regulation (EU) 2016/1104 of the 24 June 2016 implementing enhanced cooperation in the area of jurisdiction, applicable law and the recognition and enforcement of decisions in matters of the property consequences of registered partnerships.