Housing Act 1988U.K.
12.—(1) The Housing Act 1988(1) is amended as follows.
(2) In section 17(2)—
(a)for subsection (4) substitute—
“(4) For the purposes of this section, a person who was living with the tenant as if they were a married couple or civil partners is to be treated as the tenant’s spouse or civil partner.”;
(b)in subsection (5), for the words from “, or if that person” to the end substitute “or civil partner”.
(3) In Part 2 of Schedule 2, in Ground 14A(3)—
(a)omit “, a couple living together as husband and wife”;
(b)after “as if they were” insert “a married couple or”.
(4) In paragraph 3 of Schedule 3, for sub-paragraph (5) substitute—
“(5) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (2)(a) above, a person who, immediately before the previous qualifying occupier’s death, was living together with the previous occupier as if they were a married couple or civil partners shall be treated as the widow, widower or surviving civil partner of the previous occupier.”.
Commencement Information
I1Sch. 3 para. 12 in force at 2.12.2019, see reg. 1(2)
Relevant amendments were made to section 17(4) and (5) by the Civil Partnership Act 2004, Schedule 8, paragraph 41 and by S.I. 2014/560.
Ground 14A was added by the Housing Act 1996, section 149. Relevant amendments were made by the Civil Partnership Act 2004, Schedule 8, paragraph 43.