{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-security-and-investment-act-2021/schedule-1/paragraph-10",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2021/25",
  "legislation_title": "National Security and Investment Act 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-security-and-investment-act-2021",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/10",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) An individual, A, is connected with another individual, B, if—\n(a) A is B's spouse, civil partner or cohabitee,\n(b) A is a relative of B,\n(c) A is the spouse, civil partner or cohabitee of a relative of B,\n(d) A is a relative of B's spouse, civil partner or cohabitee, or\n(e) A is the spouse, civil partner or cohabitee of a relative of B's spouse, civil partner or cohabitee.\n(2) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)—\n(a) two persons who are living together as if they were a married couple or civil partners are cohabitees,\n(b) references to a spouse, civil partner or cohabitee include a former spouse, civil partner or cohabitee, and\n(c) “relative” means a brother, sister, uncle, aunt, nephew, niece, lineal ancestor or descendant (the stepchild of any person, or anyone adopted by a person, whether legally or otherwise, as their child, being regarded as a relative or taken into account to trace a relationship in the same way as that person's child).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 10 in force at 4.1.2022 by S.I. 2021/1465, regs. 2, 3 (with regs. 4, 5)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2021/25/schedule/1/paragraph/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:58:12.956043+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."
}