The Marriage (Same-sex Couples) and Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2019

Housing Benefit regulations of 2006N.I.

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108.  In regulation 2(1) of the Housing Benefit Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006(1), and in regulation 2(1) of the Housing Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006(2), for the definition of “couple” substitute—

“couple” means—

(a)

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

(b)

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

Commencement Information

I1Reg. 108 in force at 13.1.2020, see reg. 1(2)