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(1)Section 18 of the 1981 Act (occupancy rights of cohabiting couples) shall be amended in accordance with subsections (2) and (3).
(2)In subsection (1)—
(a)after “wife” there shall be inserted “ or two persons of the same sex are living together as if they were civil partners ”;
(b)after “wife (”, there shall be inserted “ in either case ”; and
(c)for “man and the woman” there shall be substituted “ entitled partner and the non-entitled partner ”.
(3)In subsection (2)—
(a)for “a man and a woman” there shall be substituted “ two persons ”; and
(b)in paragraph (b), for the words from “are” to the end of that paragraph there shall be substituted “is any child—
(i)of whom they are the parents; or
(ii)who they have treated as a child of theirs.”.
Commencement Information
I1S. 34 in force at 4.5.2006 by S.S.I. 2006/212, art. 2