{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-northern-ireland-order-1981/article-2A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-northern-ireland-order-1981/article-2A.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1981/156",
  "legislation_title": "Housing (Northern Ireland) Order 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-northern-ireland-order-1981",
  "path": "article/2A",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2A",
  "heading": "Meaning of member of a person's family",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of this Order a person is a member of another's family if—\n(a) he is the spouse or civil partner of that person, or he and that person live together as husband and wife or as if they were civil partners, or\n(b) he is that person's parent, grandparent, child, grandchild, brother, or sister.\n(2) For the purpose of paragraph (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, and\n(c) the stepchild of a person shall be treated as his child.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "2003 NI 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "2004 c. 33"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1981/156/article/2A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:52:23.326754+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."
}