PART 6Amendments: Pensions and Social Security: Primary Legislation
Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015I174
1
The Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015133 is amended as follows.
2
In Article 45 (meaning of “couple”)—
a
for paragraphs (1) and (2) substitute—
1
In this Part “couple” means—
a
two people who are married to, or civil partners of, each other and are members of the same household, or
b
two people who are not married to, or civil partners of, each other but are living together as if spouses of each other.
b
in paragraph (3)(b)—
i
for “a man and a woman” substitute “two people”, and
ii
for “as husband and wife” substitute “as if spouses of each other”.