PART IVBENEFITS

Amendments, etc. of the Contributions and Benefits Act

Power to reduce child benefit for lone parents68 F1

1

Regulations may revoke any provision of regulations which prescribes a higher rate of child benefit in the case of a lone parent, notwithstanding anything in section 141(4) of the Contributions and Benefits Act (which precludes regulations from prescribing a rate lower than the rate it replaces).

2

In this Article “lone parent” means a parent who—

a

has no spouseF2 or civil partner or is not living with his spouseF2 or civil partner; and

b

is not living with any other person as his spouseF2 or civil partner.

F23

For the purpose of this Article, a parent is to be regarded as living with another person as his civil partner if, but only if, he would be regarded as living with the other person as his spouse, were they instead two people of the opposite sex.