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.