# The Mental Health (Northern Ireland) Order 1986, Paragraph 5


A person with whom the patient ordinarily resides (or, if the patient is for the time being an in-patient in a hospital, last ordinarily resided before he was admitted) and with whom he has or had been ordinarily residing for a period of not less than 5 years.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1986/595/schedule/1/paragraph/5 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/mental-health-northern-ireland-order-1986/schedule-1/paragraph-5
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