{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-1987/section-83",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-1987/section-83.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1987/26",
  "legislation_title": "Housing (Scotland) Act 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-1987",
  "path": "section/83",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "83",
  "heading": "Members of a person’s family.",
  "text": "(1) A person is a member of another’s family for the purposes of this Act 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 in a relationship which has the characteristics of the relationship between husband and wife except that the persons are of the same sex; 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 by virtue of 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(ca) a person brought up or treated by another person as if the person were the child of the other person shall be treated as that person’s child;\n(d) a child shall be treated as such whether or not his parents are married.\n(3) Except in subsection (1)(a), references in this Act to a person’s spouse include references to that person’s civil partner or to another person living together with that person as husband and wife or in a relationship which has the characteristics of the relationship between husband and wife except that the persons are of the same sex.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 83(1)(a) inserted (5.12.2005) by Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33), s. 263(10)(c), Sch. 28 para. 54(a); S.S.I. 2005/604, arts. 2(c), 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 83(1)(a) inserted (1.10.2001) by 2001 asp 10, s. 108(3)(a); S.S.I. 2001/336, art. 2(2), Sch. Pt. I (with transitional provisions and savings in art. 3) (as amended by S.S.I. 2001/397, art. 7(b))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 83(2)(a) inserted (5.12.2005) by Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33), s. 263(10)(c), Sch. 28 para. 54(b); S.S.I. 2005/604, arts. 2(c), 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 83(2)(ca) inserted (1.10.2001) by 2001 asp 10, s. 108(3)(b); S.S.I. 2001/336, art. 2(2), Sch. Pt. I (with transitional provisions and savings in art. 3) (as amended by S.S.I. 2001/397, art. 7(b))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 83(3) inserted (1.10.2001) by 2001 asp 10, s. 108(3)(c); S.S.I. 2001/336, art. 2(2), Sch. Pt. I (with transitional provisions and savings in art. 3) (as amended by S.S.I. 2001/397, art. 7(b))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 83(3) inserted (5.12.2005) by Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33), s. 263(10)(c), Sch. 28 para. 54(c); S.S.I. 2005/604, arts. 2(c), 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 83 modified (13.3.1992) by S.I. 1992/325, regs. 3, 5, 7, Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 83 applied by Housing (Scotland) Act 1988 (c. 43, SIF 61), ss. 37(4), 52"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": null,
      "affecting": "asp/2001/10",
      "affecting_title": "Housing (Scotland) Act 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": null,
      "affecting": "asp/2001/10",
      "affecting_title": "Housing (Scotland) Act 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": null,
      "affecting": "asp/2001/10",
      "affecting_title": "Housing (Scotland) Act 2001"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1987/26/section/83",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:52:37.661692+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."
}