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

PART 7 N.I. Amendments: Pensions and Social Security: Secondary Legislation

Social Security (Credits) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1975 N.I.

76.—(1) The Social Security (Credits) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1975(1) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 8C(2), for “a person of the opposite sex as husband and wife” substitute “another person as if spouses of each other”.

(3) In paragraph 3 of the Schedule, for the words from “consisting” to the end substitute “consisting of 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

I1 Reg. 76 in force at 13.1.2020, see reg. 1(2)

(1)

S.R. (N.I.) 1975/113. Regulation 8C was inserted by regulation 3(7) of S.R. (N.I.) 2001/108 and was amended by paragraph 4(4) of Schedule 3 to S.R. (N.I.) 2005/536. The Schedule was inserted by S.R. (N.I.) 2011/107.