{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-benefit-general-regulations-2006/regulation-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-benefit-general-regulations-2006/regulation-12.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2006/223",
  "legislation_title": "The Child Benefit (General) Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-benefit-general-regulations-2006",
  "path": "regulation/12",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Child benefit not payable: qualifying young person living with another as member of couple",
  "text": "(1) Child benefit is not payable to any person (“the claimant”) in respect of a qualifying young person for any week in which the qualifying young person is living with another as if they were a married couple or civil partners, unless paragraph (2) applies.\nThe person with whom the qualifying young person is living is referred to in paragraph (2) as “the cohabitee”.\n(2) This paragraph applies if—\n(a) the cohabitee is receiving relevant education or approved training; and\n(b) the claimant is not the cohabitee.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 12(1) substituted (2.12.2019) by The Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1458), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 84(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/223/regulation/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:38:34.629656+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."
}