For the purposes of this Act, two people are “personally connected” to each other if any of the following applies—
they are, or have been, married to each other;
they are, or have been, civil partners of each other;
they have agreed to marry one another (whether or not the agreement has been terminated);
they have entered into a civil partnership agreement (whether or not the agreement has been terminated);
they are, or have been, in an intimate personal relationship with each other;
they each have, or there has been a time when they each have had, a parental relationship in relation to the same child (see subsection (2));
they are relatives.
For the purposes of subsection (1)(f) a person has a parental relationship in relation to a child if—
the person is a parent of the child, or
the person has parental responsibility for the child.
In this section—
“child” means a person under the age of 18 years;
“civil partnership agreement” has the meaning given by section 73 of the Civil Partnership Act 2004;
“parental responsibility” has the same meaning as in the Children Act 1989 (see section 3 of that Act);
“relative” has the meaning given by section 63(1) of the Family Law Act 1996.