PART 15

SUPPLEMENTARY

Definitions

Persons “unconnected with” a person
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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.