PART 7Amendments: Pensions and Social Security: Secondary Legislation

Housing Benefit regulations of 2006I1108

In regulation 2(1) of the Housing Benefit Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006171, and in regulation 2(1) of the Housing Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006172, for the definition of “couple” substitute—

  • “couple” means—

    1. a

      two people who are married to, or civil partners of, each other and are members of the same household, or

    2. b

      two people who are not married to, or civil partners of, each other but are living together as if spouses of each other;