General Section 58: Family and personal relationships
157.This section excludes from the scope of the Act activity carried out during the course of family relationships. Activity carried out within the context of a personal relationship which is not carried out for commercial consideration is also excluded. This means, for example, that a person included in the children’s barred list could look after his grandchildren. This section also includes a power to prescribe in regulations circumstances which may fall inside or outside of the definitions of “family relationship” or “personal relationship”.