The Personal Social Services (Direct Payments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997

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

3.  The following persons are prescribed for the purposes of Article 15A(2) of the Order—

(a) the spouse of the payee;

(b) a person who lives with the payee as his spouse;

(c) a person living in the same household as the payee who is the payee'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 specified in sub-paragraph (c) who lives in the same household as the payee; and

(e) a person who lives with any person specified in sub-paragraph (c) as that person’s spouse.