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This is a draft item of legislation. This draft has since been made as a UK Statutory Instrument: The Housing (Northern Ireland) Order 2003 No. 412
123.—(1) In Article 2 of the Order of 1981 (interpretation), paragraphs (4) and (5) shall be omitted.
(2) After that Article there shall be inserted—
2A.—(1) For the purposes of this Order a person is a member of another’s family if—
(a)he is the spouse of that person, or he and that person live together as husband and wife, or
(b)he is that person’s parent, grandparent, child, grandchild, brother, or sister.
(2) For the purpose of paragraph (1)(b)—
(a)a relationship by marriage shall be treated as a relationship by blood,
(b)a relationship of the half-blood shall be treated as a relationship of the whole blood, and
(c)the stepchild of a person shall be treated as his child.”.
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