{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/consumer-credit-act-1974/section-184",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/consumer-credit-act-1974/section-184.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1974/39",
  "legislation_title": "Consumer Credit Act 1974",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/consumer-credit-act-1974",
  "path": "section/184",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "184",
  "heading": "Associates.",
  "text": "(1) A person is an associate of an individual if that person is—\n(a) the individual’s husband or wife or civil partner,\n(b) a relative of—\n(i) the individual, or\n(ii) the individual’s husband or wife or civil partner, or\n(c) the husband or wife or civil partner of a relative of—\n(i) the individual, or\n(ii) the individual’s husband or wife or civil partner.\n(2) A person is an associate of any person with whom he is in partnership, and of the husband or wife or civil partner or a relative of any individual with whom he is in partnership.\n(3) A body corporate is an associate of another body corporate—\n(a) if the same person is a controller of both, or a person is a controller of one and persons who are his associates, or he and persons who are his associates, are controllers of the other; or\n(b) if a group of two or more persons is a controller of each company, and the groups either consist of the same persons or could be regarded as consisting of the same persons by treating (in one or more cases) a member of either group as replaced by a person of whom he is an associate.\n(4) A body corporate is an associate of another person if that person is a controller of it or if that person and persons who are his associates together are controllers of it.\n(5) In this section “relative ” means brother, sister, uncle, aunt, nephew, niece, lineal ancestor or lineal descendant, . . . references to a husband or wife include a former husband or wife and a reputed husband or wife, and references to a civil partner include a former civil partner and a reputed civil partner; and for the purposes of this subsection a relationship shall be established as if any illegitimate child, step-child or adopted child of a person were the legitimate child of the relationship in question .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 184(1) substituted (5.12.2005) by Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33), s. 261(1), Sch. 27 para. 51(2); S.I. 2005/3175, art. 2(2)-(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 184(2) inserted (5.12.2005) by Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33), s. 261(1), Sch. 27 para. 51(3); S.I. 2005/3175, art. 2(2)-(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in s. 184(5) repealed (5.12.2005) by Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33), s. 261(1)(4), Sch. 27 para. 51(4)(a), Sch. 30; S.I. 2005/3175, art. 2(2)-(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 184(5) substituted (5.12.2005) by Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33), s. 261(1), Sch. 27 para. 51(4)(b); S.I. 2005/3175, art. 2(2)-(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 184(5) inserted (5.12.2005) by The Civil Partnership Act 2004 (Overseas Relationships and Consequential, etc. Amendments) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/3129), art. 4(4), Sch. 4 para. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 184(5) substituted (5.12.2005) by Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33), s. 261(1), Sch. 27 para. 51(4)(c); S.I. 2005/3175, art. 2(2)-(5)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/39/section/184",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:43:44.026464+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."
}