Regulation 34 Persons treated as residing together
United Kingdom
For the purposes of Part 9 of SSCBA and Part 9 of SSCB(NI)A, the prescribed circumstances in which persons are treated as residing together are that spouses, two persons who are civil partners of each other, or two persons who are parents of a child F1or qualifying young person are absent from one another—
(a)
where such absence is not likely to be permanent; or
(b)
by reason only of the fact that either of them is, or they both are, undergoing medical or other treatment as an in-patient in a hospital or similar institution whether such absence is temporary or not.
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Textual amendments
- F1
Words in reg. 34 inserted (16.8.2007) by The Child Benefit (General) (Amendment) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/2150), regs. 1, 12