• 7. Despite Section 13 — Conflict of Interest, paragraph 2, a director, officer, agent or employee or a person related to one of them may directly or indirectly receive a gain, benefit, advantage, privilege or remuneration from the housing provider if all of the following conditions are satisfied:
  
  
  1. a notice of the conflict of interest or potential conflict of interest is given in accordance with Section 13 — Conflict of Interest, paragraph 3.
  2. the service manager agrees that there is no reasonable alternative for the housing provider other than entering into the situation, arrangement or agreement that results in or may result in the conflict of interest. 
     
     
• 8. For the purposes of this Section, a person related to a director, officer, agent or employee includes a parent, spouse, child, household member, sibling, uncle, aunt, nephew, niece, mother-in-law, father-in-law sister-in-law, brother-in-law or grandparent, or a person with whom the director, officer, agent or employee has a business relationship. 
  
  
• 9. In this Section,
  "child", in relation to an individual, means a child of the individual born within or outside marriage (unless that child has been adopted by one or more other individuals in Ontario or according to the law of another jurisdiction), a child adopted by the individual in Ontario or according to the law of another jurisdiction, and a child whom the individual has demonstrated a settled intention to treat as a child of his or her family, but does not include a child placed in the individual's home as a foster child for consideration by another person having lawful custody; "parent", in relation to an individual, means a natural parent of the individual (unless the individual has been adopted by one or more other persons in Ontario or according to the law of another jurisdiction), an adoptive parent of the individual who has adopted the individual in Ontario or according to the law of another jurisdiction, and a person who has demonstrated a settled intention to treat the individual as a child of his or her family, but does not include a person in whose home the individual has been placed as a foster child for consideration by another person having lawful custody;

“parent”, in relation to an individual, means a natural parent of the individual (unless the individual has been adopted by one or more other persons in Ontario or according to the law of another jurisdiction), an adoptive parent of the individual who has adopted the individual in Ontario or according to the law of another jurisdiction, and a person who has demonstrated a settled intention to treat the individual as a child of his or her family, but does not include a person in whose home the individual has been placed as a foster child for consideration by another person having lawful custody;

“spouse”, in relation to a person, means,

1. an individual who, together with the person, has advised the housing provider that the  individual and the person are spouses, or

2. an individual who is residing in the same dwelling place as the person, if the social and familial aspects of the relationship between the individual and the person

   amount to cohabitation and,

   1. the individual is providing financial support to the person,

   2. the person is providing financial support to the individual, or

   3. the individual and the person have a mutual agreement or arrangement regarding their financial affairs.