PART 15SUPPLEMENTARY

Definitions

304Persons “unconnected with” a person

1

For the purposes of this Act a person (“B”) is “unconnected with” another person (“A”) unless—

a

B receives any payments made on account of A's maintenance, or has an interest in the receipt of any such payments;

b

B is A's spouse, civil partner, parent, child, brother, sister, mother-in law, father-in law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, sister-in-law or brother-in-law;

c

B is living with A as if he or she were A's spouse or civil partner and has been so living for a period of at least 6 months;

d

B is someone with whom A lives and has been living for a period of at least 5 years; or

e

A is living in a relevant place and, at the time when A started living in the relevant place—

i

B had been living with A as if he or she were A's spouse or civil partner for a period of at least 6 months; or

ii

B was a person with whom A had been living for a period of at least 5 years.

2

In subsection (1)(e) “relevant place” means—

a

a hospital;

b

a care home; or

c

a place of a prescribed description.