The Housing (Northern Ireland) Order 2003

Meaning of “connected persons”

31.  For the purposes of this Part a person is connected with the owner for the time being of a dwelling if—

(a) in a case where personal representatives or trustees are the owner, he is a person who under the will or intestacy or, as the case may be, under the terms of the trust concerned is beneficially entitled to an interest in the dwelling or to the proceeds of sale of the dwelling;

(b) in any other case, he is a member of the family of the owner.