The Community Care (Direct Payments) (Scotland) Regulations 2003

Persons from whom services may not be secured by means of a direct payment

4.  The following descriptions of persons are specified for the purposes of subsection (3) of section 12B (persons from whom services may not be secured by means of a direct payment) of the Act:–

(a) the spouse of the beneficiary;

(b) a person who lives with the beneficiary–

(i) as man and wife; or

(ii) in a relationship which has the characteristics of the relationship between man and wife except that the person and beneficiary are of the same sex;

(c) a person living in the same household as the beneficiary who is the beneficiary's–

(i) parent or parent in law;

(ii) son or daughter;

(iii) son in law or daughter in law;

(iv) stepson or stepdaughter;

(v) brother or sister;

(vi) aunt or uncle; or

(vii) grandparent;

(d) the spouse of any person of a description specified in paragraph (c) who lives in the same household as the beneficiary; and

(e) a person who lives with any person of a description specified in paragraph (c)–

(i) as man and wife; or

(ii) in a relationship which has the characteristics of the relationship between man and wife except that they are of the same sex.