The Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) Regulations 2019 No. 1458

SCHEDULE 3 Consequential and related amendments

PART 2 Secondary legislation

Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 2001

59.  In regulation 1(2) of the Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 2001(1), in the definition of “couple”, in paragraph (b), for “as a married couple” substitute “as if they were a married couple or civil partners”.

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S.I. 2001/1002. Relevant amendments were made by S.I. 2014/107 and 3229.