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

Housing Benefit (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001 N.I.

97.  In regulation 1(2) of the Housing Benefit (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001(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;”.

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 97 in force at 13.1.2020, see reg. 1(2)

(1)

S.R. (N.I.) 2001/213. In regulation 1(2), the definition of “couple” was inserted by regulation 8 of S.R. (N.I.) 2005/539.