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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-armed-forces-commissioner-family-definition-and-consequential-and-transitional-provision-etc-regulations-2026/regulation-3",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2026/9780348278460",
  "legislation_title": "The Armed Forces Commissioner (Family Definition, and Consequential and Transitional Provision etc.) Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-armed-forces-commissioner-family-definition-and-consequential-and-transitional-provision-etc-regulations-2026",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Relevant family members",
  "text": "(1) A person is a “relevant family member” for the purposes of section 340IA of the 2006 Act where, in relation to a person subject to service law (A), the person is any of the following—\n(a) A’s spouse or civil partner;\n(b) a child of A or of A’s spouse or civil partner;\n(c) a person whose child is A;\n(d) a brother or sister, or step-brother or step-sister of A;\n(e) a relative of A or of A’s spouse or civil partner where the relative is one of the following—\n(i) a member of A’s household,\n(ii) wholly or mainly financially dependant on A or A’s spouse or civil partner, or\n(iii) someone for whom A or A’s spouse or civil partner has assumed regular and substantial caring responsibilities;\n(f) where A is deceased, anyone who was a relevant family member of A under sub-paragraphs (a) to (e) immediately before A’s death.\n(2) In this regulation—\n“child” means a person (C) who meets one or more of the following conditions in relation to another person (P)—\n(a) P is the parent or step-parent of C;\n(b) P has, or would have if domiciled in England and Wales, parental responsibility for C within the meaning of section 3 of the Children Act 1989;\n(c) P had, or would have had if domiciled in England and Wales, parental responsibility for C within the meaning of section 3 of the Children Act 1989;\n(d) C, while under the age of 18 years, is or was—\n(i) wholly or mainly financially dependent on P, or\n(ii) someone for whom P has or had assumed regular and substantial caring responsibilities.\n“relative” in relation to A or A’s spouse or civil partner, means any of the following—\n(a) a parent or step-parent of A’s spouse or civil partner;\n(b) a grandparent, step-grandparent, great-grandparent, step-great-grandparent, grandchild, step-grandchild, great-grandchild or step-great-grandchild of A or of A’s spouse or civil partner;\n(c) the brother, sister, step-brother or step-sister of A’s spouse or civil partner;\n(d) the uncle, great-uncle, aunt, great-aunt, niece, great-niece, nephew, great-nephew or first cousin (including by marriage or civil partnership) of A or of A’s spouse or civil partner.\n(3) For the purposes of this Regulation, references to A’s spouse or civil partner includes—\n(a) a person whose relationship with A is akin to a relationship between spouses or civil partners;\n(b) a former spouse or civil partner of A;\n(c) a person whose relationship with A was formerly akin to a relationship between spouses or civil partners.\n(4) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(e), references to a person being a member of A’s household includes references to a person who would be living in the same household as A but for the fact that A is temporarily living at another address for service reasons.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 365AA was inserted by section 1(1) of the Armed Forces Commissioner Act 2025 (c. 23). See section 340IA(9) of the Armed Forces Act 2006 for the meaning of “specified”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1989 c. 41."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2026/9780348278460/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:38:08.378506+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."
}