# The Mental Health (Northern Ireland) Order 1986, Paragraph 4


A person who is living with the patient as if he or she were the spouse or civil partner of the patient (or, if the patient is for the time being an in-patient in a hospital, was so living until the patient was admitted) and has been or had been so living for a period of not less than 6 months.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1986/595/schedule/1/paragraph/4 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-northern-ireland-order-1986/schedule-1/paragraph-4
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