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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/advice-and-assistance-scotland-amendment-regulations-2003/regulation-4",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2003/163",
  "legislation_title": "The Advice and Assistance (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/advice-and-assistance-scotland-amendment-regulations-2003",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Advice and Assistance (Scotland) Regulations 1996",
  "text": "For regulation 7(2) substitute–\n“(2) For the purposes of section 42 of the Act, two persons living together as husband and wife or in a relationship which has the characteristics of the relationship between husband and wife except that the persons are of the same sex shall be treated as if they were spouses of each other.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2003/163/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:37:21.263350+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}