[F1185E+WEach of the following is an interested person—
(a)the relevant person's spouse or civil partner;
[F2(b)where the relevant person and another person are not married to each other, nor in a civil partnership with each other, but are living together as if they were a married couple [F3or civil partners]: that other person;]
(d)the relevant person's children and step-children;
(e)the relevant person's parents and step-parents;
(f)the relevant person's brothers and sisters, half-brothers and half-sisters, and stepbrothers and stepsisters;
(g)the relevant person's grandparents;
(h)a deputy appointed for the relevant person by the court;
(i)a donee of a lasting power of attorney granted by the relevant person.]
Textual Amendments
F1 Sch. A1 inserted (1.4.2008 for certain purposes and otherwise 1.4.2009) by Mental Health Act 2007 (c. 12) , ss. 50 , 56 , Sch. 7 ; S.I. 2008/745 , art. 4(a) ; S.I. 2009/139 , art. 2(c) (with art. 3 , Sch. paras. 3 , 4 )
F2 Sch. A1 paragraph 185(b) substituted for Sch. A1 paragraph 185(b)(c) (13.3.2014) by The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 (Consequential and Contrary Provisions and Scotland) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/560), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 30
F3Words in Sch. A1 para. 185(b) inserted (2.12.2019) by The Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1458), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 28