Part 3Child support etc.
Miscellaneous
45Liable relative provisions: exclusion of parental duty to maintain
1
In section 105 of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 (c. 5) (failure to maintain), for subsection (3) substitute—
3
Subject to subsection (4), for the purposes of this Part, a person shall be liable to maintain another person if that other person is—
a
his or her spouse or civil partner, or
b
a person whom he or she would be liable to maintain if sections 78(6)(c) and (9) had effect for the purposes of this Part.
2
In that section, in subsection (4), for the words from “a person” to the end, substitute “
subsection (3)(b) shall not apply
”
.