PART 6Amendments: Pensions and Social Security: Primary Legislation

Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015I174

1

The Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015133 is amended as follows.

2

In Article 45 (meaning of “couple”)—

a

for paragraphs (1) and (2) substitute—

1

In this Part “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.

b

in paragraph (3)(b)—

i

for “a man and a woman” substitute “two people”, and

ii

for “as husband and wife” substitute “as if spouses of each other”.