# Mental Capacity Act (Northern Ireland) 2016, Section 304: Persons “unconnected with” a person


(1) For the purposes of this Act a person (“B”) is “unconnected with” another person (“A”) unless—
(a) B receives any payments made on account of A's maintenance, or has an interest in the receipt of any such payments;
(b) B is A's spouse, civil partner, parent, child, brother, sister, mother-in law, father-in law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, sister-in-law or brother-in-law;
(c) B is living with A as if he or she were A's spouse or civil partner and has been so living for a period of at least 6 months;
(d) B is someone with whom A lives and has been living for a period of at least 5 years; or
(e) A is living in a relevant place and, at the time when A started living in the relevant place—
(i) B had been living with A as if he or she were A's spouse or civil partner for a period of at least 6 months; or
(ii) B was a person with whom A had been living for a period of at least 5 years.
(2) In subsection (1)(e) “relevant place” means—
(a) a hospital;
(b) a care home; or
(c) a place of a prescribed description.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2016/18/section/304 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/mental-capacity-act-northern-ireland-2016/section-304
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