# The Child Benefit (General) Regulations 2006, Regulation 34: Persons treated as residing together

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

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—
(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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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/223/regulation/34 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/child-benefit-general-regulations-2006/regulation-34
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