Section 721 | Other definitions ^F1F2

(1)In this Act—

(2)Repealed

(3)Any reference in this Act to being domiciled in the United Kingdom is to be read as a reference to being domiciled in any part of the United Kingdom.

(4)For the purposes of this Act the following are members of a person’s family—

(a)the person’s spouse or civil partner,^F3

(b)the person’s children and their spouses or civil partners,^F4

(c)the person’s parents, and

(d)the person’s dependants.

(5)For the purposes of this Act the following are members of a person’s family or household—

(a)members of the person’s family,

(b)the person’s domestic staff, and

(c)the person’s guests.

(6)The following provisions (which relate to the legal equality of illegitimate children) are to be disregarded in interpreting references in this Act to a child or children—

(a)section 1 of the Family Law Reform Act 1987 (c. 42);

(b)the paragraph inserted in Schedule 1 to the Interpretation Act 1978 (c. 30) by paragraph 73 of Schedule 2 to the 1987 Act;

(c)section 1(2) of the Law Reform (Parent and Child) (Scotland) Act 1986 (c. 9);

(d)Article 155 of the Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 (S.I. 1995/755 (N.I. 2)).

(7)In the employment income Parts any reference to earnings which is not limited by the context—

(a)to earnings within Chapter 1 of Part 3, or

(b)to any other particular description of earnings,

includes a reference to any amount treated as earnings by any of the provisions mentioned in section 7(5) (meaning of “employment income” etc.).