8. An individual is to be regarded as the partner of another individual on a day only if, on that day, the two individuals would be regarded as a couple for the purposes of Part 1 of the Welfare Reform Act 2012 M1 (see section 39 of that Act M2).
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M2Section 39 is amended by S.I. 2014/3229