{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registered-homes-act-1984-repealed/section-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registered-homes-act-1984-repealed/section-19.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1984/23",
  "legislation_title": "Registered Homes Act 1984 (repealed)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registered-homes-act-1984-repealed",
  "path": "section/19",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Meaning of “relative”.",
  "text": "(1) In this Part of this Act “relative” means any of the following—\n(a) husband or wife;\n(b) son or daughter;\n(c) father or mother;\n(d) brother or sister;\n(e) grandparent or other ascendent;\n(f) grandchild or other descendant;\n(g) uncle or aunt;\n(h) nephew or niece;\n(2) In deducing any relationship for the purposes of subsection (1) above—\n(a) any relationship by affinity shall be treated as a relationship by consanguinity, any relationship of the half-blood as a relationship of the whole blood, and the stepchild of any person as his child; and\n(b) an illegitimate person shall be treated as the legitimate child of his mother and reputed father.\n(3) In this section “husband” and “wife” include a person who is living with a person carrying on or intending to carry on a residential care home as that person’s husband or wife, as the case may be, and who has been so living for a period of not less than 6 months.\n(4) A person, other than a relative, with whom a person carrying on or intending to carry on a residential care home ordinarily resides, and with whom that person has been ordinarily residing for a period of not less than 5 years, shall be treated for the purposes of this Part of this Act as if he were a relative.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/23/section/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:03:04.654679+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."
}