{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1985/section-186",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1985/section-186.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1985/68",
  "legislation_title": "Housing Act 1985",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1985",
  "path": "section/186",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "186",
  "heading": "Members of a person’s family.",
  "text": "(1) A person is a member of another’s family within the meaning of this Part if—\n(a) he is the spouse or civil partner of that person, or he and that person live together as if they were a married couple or civil partners, or\n(b) he is that person’s parent, grandparent, child, grandchild, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, nephew or niece.\n(2) For the purposes of subsection (1)(b)—\n(a) a relationship by marriage or civil partnership shall be treated as a relationship by blood,\n(b) a relationship of the half-blood shall be treated as a relationship of the whole blood,\n(c) the stepchild of a person shall be treated as his child, and\n(d) an illegitimate child shall be treated as as the legitimate child of his mother and reputed father.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 186(1)(a) inserted (5.12.2005) by Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33), ss. 81, 263(2), Sch. 8 para. 27(2)(a); S.I. 2005/3175, art. 2(1), Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 186(1)(a) substituted (2.12.2019) by The Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1458), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 10(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 186(1)(a) inserted (5.12.2005) by Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33), ss. 81, 263(2), Sch. 8 para. 27(2)(b); S.I. 2005/3175, art. 2(1), Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 186(2)(a) inserted (5.12.2005) by Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33), ss. 81, 263(2), Sch. 8 para. 27(3); S.I. 2005/3175, art. 2(1), Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 186 applied by Housing Act 1988 (c. 50, SIF 61), s. 79(13), Sch. 11 para. 4(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/68/section/186",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:59:47.243826+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."
}