Discretionary Support Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016N.I.
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117. In the Discretionary Support Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016(1), in regulation 3(1), in the definition of “couple”—
(a)in paragraph (a), for “a man and a woman who are married to” substitute “, two people who are married to, or civil partners of,”,
(b)for paragraph (b) substitute—
“(b)two people who are not married to, or civil partners of, each other but are living together as if spouses of each other;”,
(c)omit paragraphs (c) and (d), but not the “or” at the end, and
(d)omit the words after paragraph (e).
Commencement Information
I1Reg. 117 in force at 13.1.2020, see reg. 1(2)