{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-benefit-general-regulations-2006/regulation-34",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-benefit-general-regulations-2006/regulation-34.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/34",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "34",
  "heading": "Persons treated as residing together",
  "text": "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 or qualifying young person are absent from one another—\n(a) where such absence is not likely to be permanent; or\n(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.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 34 inserted (16.8.2007) by The Child Benefit (General) (Amendment) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/2150), regs. 1, 12"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/223/regulation/34",
    "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."
}