{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006/section-253",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006/section-253.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/46",
  "legislation_title": "Companies Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006",
  "path": "section/253",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "253",
  "heading": "Members of a director's family",
  "text": "(1) This section defines what is meant by references in this Part to members of a director's family.\n(2) For the purposes of this Part the members of a director's family are—\n(a) the director's spouse or civil partner;\n(b) any other person (whether of a different sex or the same sex) with whom the director lives as partner in an enduring family relationship;\n(c) the director's children or step-children;\n(d) any children or step-children of a person within paragraph (b) (and who are not children or step-children of the director) who live with the director and have not attained the age of 18;\n(e) the director's parents.\n(3) Subsection (2)(b) does not apply if the other person is the director's grandparent or grandchild, sister, brother, aunt or uncle, or nephew or niece.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Ss. 252-255 applied (with modifications) (1.8.2014) by Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act 2014 (c. 14), ss. 49(5), 154 (with Sch. 5)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/46/section/253",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:13:40.060156+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."
}