304—(1) For the purposes of this Act a person (“B”) is “unconnected with” another person (“A”) unless—
(a)B receives any payments made on account of A's maintenance, or has an interest in the receipt of any such payments;
(b)B is A's spouse, civil partner, parent, child, brother, sister, mother-in law, father-in law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, sister-in-law or brother-in-law;
(c)B is living with A as if he or she were A's spouse or civil partner and has been so living for a period of at least 6 months;
(d)B is someone with whom A lives and has been living for a period of at least 5 years; or
(e)A is living in a relevant place and, at the time when A started living in the relevant place—
(i)B had been living with A as if he or she were A's spouse or civil partner for a period of at least 6 months; or
(ii)B was a person with whom A had been living for a period of at least 5 years.
(2) In subsection (1)(e) “relevant place” means—
(a)a hospital;
(b)a care home; or
(c)a place of a prescribed description.