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

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

Jobseekers (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 N.I.

69.  In Article 2 of the Jobseekers (Northern Ireland) Order 1995(1)—

(a) in paragraph (2), 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 paragraph (2A).

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 69 in force at 13.1.2020, see reg. 1(2)

(1)

S.I. 1995/2705 (N.I. 15). In Article 2, the definition of “couple” in paragraph (2), and paragraph (2A), were inserted by paragraph 130 of Schedule 24 to the Civil Partnership Act 2004.