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Section 253: Members of a director's family

Companies Act 2006 · 2006 c. 46View on legislation.gov.uk

Part 10: A company's directors — Chapter 9: Supplementary provisions

This section defines what is meant by references in this Part to members of a director's family.

For the purposes of this Part the members of a director's family are—

the director's spouse or civil partner;
any other person (whether of a different sex or the same sex) with whom the director lives as partner in an enduring family relationship;
the director's children or step-children;
any children or step-children of a person within paragraph (b) (and who are not children or step-children of the director) who live with the director and have not attained the age of 18;
the director's parents.

Subsection (2)(b) does not apply if the other person is the director's grandparent or grandchild, sister, brother, aunt or uncle, or nephew or niece.

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