SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 18Housing and tenancies: Northern Ireland

Housing (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 (S.I. 1981/156 (N.I. 3))

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(1)

Amend Article 2A (meaning of member of a person’s family) as follows.

(2)

In paragraph (1)(a)—

(a)

after “spouse” insert “ or civil partner ”, and

(b)

after “live together as husband and wife” insert “ or as if they were civil partners ”.

(3)

In paragraph (2)(a), after “a relationship by marriage” insert “ or civil partnership ”.