The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 (Consequential and Contrary Provisions and Scotland) Order 2014

Pneumoconiosis etc. (Workers’ Compensation) Act 1979

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18.  In section 3 of the Pneumoconiosis etc. (Workers’ Compensation) Act 1979(1) (dependants)—

(a)for subsection (2A) substitute—

(2A) For the purposes of subsection (1)(c) two persons are in a qualifying relationship if they are living together as a married couple., and

(b)omit subsection (2B).

(1)

1979 c. 41; subsections (2A) and (2B) of section 3 were inserted by the Welfare Reform Act 2007 (c. 5), section 59(2). There are other amendments to section 3 not relevant to this Order.