{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-capacity-act-2005/schedule-A1/paragraph-185",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-capacity-act-2005/schedule-A1/paragraph-185.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2005/9",
  "legislation_title": "Mental Capacity Act 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-capacity-act-2005",
  "path": "schedule/A1/paragraph/185",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "185",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Each of the following is an interested person—\n(a) the relevant person's spouse or civil partner;\n(b) where the relevant person and another person are not married to each other, nor in a civil partnership with each other, but are living together as if they were a married couple or civil partners: that other person;\n(d) the relevant person's children and step-children;\n(e) the relevant person's parents and step-parents;\n(f) the relevant person's brothers and sisters, half-brothers and half-sisters, and stepbrothers and stepsisters;\n(g) the relevant person's grandparents;\n(h) a deputy appointed for the relevant person by the court;\n(i) a donee of a lasting power of attorney granted by the relevant person.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. A1 inserted (1.4.2008 for certain purposes and otherwise 1.4.2009) by Mental Health Act 2007 (c. 12) , ss. 50 , 56 , Sch. 7 ; S.I. 2008/745 , art. 4(a) ; S.I. 2009/139 , art. 2(c) (with art. 3 , Sch. paras. 3 , 4 )"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. A1 paragraph 185(b) substituted for Sch. A1 paragraph 185(b)(c) (13.3.2014) by The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 (Consequential and Contrary Provisions and Scotland) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/560), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 30"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. A1 para. 185(b) inserted (2.12.2019) by The Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1458), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 28"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2019/18",
      "affecting_title": "Mental Capacity (Amendment) Act 2019"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2005/9/schedule/A1/paragraph/185",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:16:24.228713+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."
}