SCHEDULE 13AMENDMENTS TO SUBORDINATE LEGISLATION RELATING TO IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY

PART 1IMMIGRATION

Asylum Support Regulations 2000

2.

(1)

Amend the Asylum Support Regulations 2000 M1 as follows.

(2)

In regulation 2(1)—

(a)

after the definition of “asylum support” insert “ “civil partnership couple” means two people of the same sex who are civil partners of each other and who are members of the same household; ”; and

(b)

after the definition of “married couple” insert “ “same-sex couple” means two people of the same sex who, though not civil partners of each other, are living together as if they were; ”.

(3)

In regulation 2(4)—

(a)

in sub-paragraph (a), after “is his spouse” insert “ or civil partner ”;

(b)

in sub-paragraph (b), after “is a child of his or of his spouse” insert “ or civil partner ”;

(c)

in sub-paragraph (c), after “his spouse's” insert “ or civil partner's ”; and

(d)

after sub-paragraph (f) insert—

“(fa)

had been living with him as a member of a same-sex couple for at least two of the three years before the relevant time;”.

(4)

In regulation 10(4)—

(a)

for sub-paragraph (a) substitute—

“(a)

“qualifying couple” means a married couple, an unmarried couple, a civil partnership couple or a same-sex couple, at least one of whom is aged 18 or over and neither of whom is aged under 16;”; and

(b)

for sub-paragraph (b) substitute—

“(b)

“lone parent” means a parent who is not a member of a married couple, an unmarried couple, a civil partnership couple or a same-sex couple;”

(5)

In regulation 15(2)—

(a)

after sub-paragraph (f) insert:

“(fa)

forms a civil partnership;”;

(b)

after sub-paragraph (g) insert:

“(ga)

starts living with a person as if a civil partner of that person;”;

(c)

after sub-paragraph (h) insert:

“(ha)

becomes a former civil partner on the dissolution of his civil partnership;”; and

(d)

after sub-paragraph (i) insert:

“(ia)

separates from his civil partner or from the person with whom he has been living as if a civil partner of that person;”.