PART 7 U.K.General and supplementary provisions

Persons treated as residing together U.K.

34.  For the purposes of Part 9 of SSCBA and Part 9 of SSCB(NI)A, the prescribed circumstances in which persons are treated as residing together are that spouses, two persons who are civil partners of each other, or two persons who are parents of a child [F1 or qualifying young person] are absent from one another—

(a) where such absence is not likely to be permanent; or

(b) by reason only of the fact that either of them is, or they both are, undergoing medical or other treatment as an in-patient in a hospital or similar institution whether such absence is temporary or not.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in reg. 34 inserted (16.8.2007) by The Child Benefit (General) (Amendment) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/2150), regs. 1, 12