The Marriage (Same-sex Couples) and Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2019 No. 1514

PART 6 U.K. Amendments: Pensions and Social Security: Primary Legislation

Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 N.I.

63.  In paragraph 2 of Schedule 5 to the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1989(1) (the principle of equal treatment)—

(a) in sub-paragraph (5), after “marital” insert “, civil partnership”, and

(b) in sub-paragraph (9)—

(i) in paragraphs (a) and (b), for “an unmarried” substitute “a relevant”, and

(ii) in paragraph (b), for the words after “some other person” substitute “, without being married to or civil partners of each other, live together as if spouses of each other”.

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 63 in force at 13.1.2020, see reg. 1(2)

(1)

S.I. 1989/1342 (N.I. 13).