The Mental Health (Conflict of Interest) (Scotland) Regulations 2005 No. 262

Regulations 2 and 4

SCHEDULE Prohibited degrees of relationship

• Child

• Grandchild

• Parent

• Grandparent

• Wife

• Husband

• Sister

• Brother

• Daughter-in-law

• Son-in-law

• Mother-in-law

• Father-in-law

• Sister-in-law

• Brother-in-law

• Cohabitee

• Child, grandchild, parent, grandparent, sister or brother of a cohabitee.

For the purposes of this Schedule–

(a) a relationship of the half-blood shall be treated as a relationship of the whole blood; and

(b) the stepchild of a person shall be treated as the child of that person.