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

State Pension Credit Act (Northern Ireland) 2002 N.I.

71.  In section 17 of the State Pension Credit Act (Northern Ireland) 2002(1) (interpretation)—

(a) in subsection (1), 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 otherwise than in prescribed circumstances;”, and

(b) omit subsection (1A).

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 71 in force at 13.1.2020, see reg. 1(2)

(1)

2002 c.14 (N.I.). The definition of “couple” in section 17(1), and section 17(1A), were inserted by paragraphs 150 and 151 of Schedule 24 to the Civil Partnership Act 2004.