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This is a draft item of legislation. This draft has since been made as a UK Statutory Instrument: The Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarm (England) Regulations 2015 No. 1693
1.—(1) A tenancy under the terms of which the occupier shares any accommodation with the landlord or a member of the landlord’s family.
(2) For the purposes of this paragraph—
(a)an occupier shares accommodation with another person if the occupier has the use of an amenity in common with that person (whether or not also in common with others);
(b)“amenity” includes a toilet, personal washing facilities, a kitchen or a living room but excludes any area used for storage, a staircase, corridor or other means of access;
(c)a person is a member of the same family as another person if—
(i)those persons live as a couple;
(ii)one of them is the relative of the other; or
(iii)one of them is, or is a relative of, one member of a couple and the other is a relative of the other member of the couple;
(d)“couple” means two people who are married to, or civil partners of, each other or who live together as if they are a married couple or civil partners;
(e)“relative” means parent, grandparent, child, grandchild, brother, sister, aunt, nephew, niece or cousin;
(f)a relationship of the half-blood is to be treated as a relationship of the whole blood; and
(g)a stepchild of a person is to be treated as that person’s child.
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