{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-conflicts-of-interest-england-regulations-2008/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-conflicts-of-interest-england-regulations-2008/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/1205",
  "legislation_title": "The Mental Health (Conflicts of Interest) (England) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-conflicts-of-interest-england-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Potential conflict of interest on the basis of a personal relationship",
  "text": "(1) An assessor who is considering making an application or considering giving a medical recommendation in respect of a patient, shall have a potential conflict of interest on the basis of a personal relationship if that assessor is—\n(a) related to a relevant person in the first degree;\n(b) related to a relevant person in the second degree;\n(c) related to a relevant person as a half-sister or half-brother;\n(d) the spouse, ex-spouse, civil partner or ex-civil partner of a relevant person, or\n(e) living with a relevant person as if they were a spouse or a civil partner.\n(2) For the purposes of this regulation—\n(a) “relevant person” means another assessor, the patient, or, if the nearest relative is making the application, the nearest relative;\n(b) “related in the first degree” means as a parent, sister, brother, son or daughter and includes step relationships;\n(c) “related in the second degree” means as an uncle, aunt, grandparent, grandchild, first cousin, nephew, niece, parent-in-law, grandparent-in-law, grandchild-in-law, sister-in-law, brother-in-law, son-in-law or daughter-in-law and includes step relationships;\n(d) references to step relationships and in-laws in sub-paragraphs (b) and (c) are to be read in accordance with section 246 of the Civil Partnership Act 2004.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2004 c.33."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/1205/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:31:20.217391+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."
}