Amendment of the Child Benefit and Guardian’s Allowance (Administration) Regulations 2003
12.—(1) The Child Benefit and Guardian’s Allowance (Administration) Regulations 2003(1) shall be amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 2 (interpretation)—
(a)after the definition of “the Board” insert—
““civil partnership” means two people of the same sex who are civil partners of each other and are neither—
separated under a court order, nor
separated in circumstances in which the separation is likely to be permanent;
“cohabiting same-sex couple” means two people of the same sex who are not civil partners of each other but are living together as if they were civil partners;”; and
(b)in the definition of “partner” substitute—
““partner” means a member of a married couple, an unmarried couple, or a cohabiting same-sex couple or a civil partnership”.
S.I. 2003/492.