{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/abuse-redress-measure-2025/section-31",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/abuse-redress-measure-2025/section-31.json",
  "legislation": "ukcm/2025/4",
  "legislation_title": "Abuse Redress Measure 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/abuse-redress-measure-2025",
  "path": "section/31",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "31",
  "heading": "Interpretation of references to relatives etc.",
  "text": "(1) This section applies for the purposes of this Measure.\n(2) A person is the “surviving partner” of a deceased person if that person is the deceased’s surviving spouse, surviving civil partner or other surviving partner.\n(3) A person is the “other surviving partner” of a deceased person if, immediately before the death, they were not married to, or civil partners of, each other but—\n(a) were living together as if they were, or\n(b) were in a relationship having other characteristics of a marriage or civil partnership.\n(4) “Child”, in relation to a person, includes a step-child of that person and a child of that person’s civil partner or other partner; and for that purpose—\n(a) a reference to a child is not limited to a person aged under 18, and\n(b) a reference to a person’s other partner is to be construed in accordance with subsection (3).\n(5) A person is a “dependant child” of a deceased person if—\n(a) the person is a child of the deceased for whom, immediately before the death, the deceased had a financial or caring responsibility, or\n(b) the deceased had, immediately before the death, parental responsibility for the person.\n(6) “Parental responsibility” has the meaning given in the Children Act 1989.\n(7) A person is a “dependant parent” of a deceased person if—\n(a) the person is a parent of the deceased, and\n(b) the deceased had, immediately before the death, a financial or caring responsibility for the person.\n(8) “Spouse” includes a person married to somebody of the same sex; and a reference to being married is to be construed likewise.",
  "extent": "E",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 31 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 33(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukcm/2025/4/section/31",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:22:04.022551+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}