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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-act-2004-amendments-to-subordinate-legislation-order-2005/schedule-13/paragraph-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2005/2114",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Partnership Act 2004 (Amendments to Subordinate Legislation) Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-act-2004-amendments-to-subordinate-legislation-order-2005",
  "path": "schedule/13/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Asylum Support Regulations 2000",
  "text": "(1) Amend the Asylum Support Regulations 2000 as follows.\n(2) In regulation 2(1)—\n(a) after the definition of “asylum support” insert “ “civil partnership couple” means two people of the same sex who are civil partners of each other and who are members of the same household; ”; and\n(b) after the definition of “married couple” insert “ “same-sex couple” means two people of the same sex who, though not civil partners of each other, are living together as if they were; ”.\n(3) In regulation 2(4)—\n(a) in sub-paragraph (a), after “is his spouse” insert “ or civil partner ”;\n(b) in sub-paragraph (b), after “is a child of his or of his spouse” insert “ or civil partner ”;\n(c) in sub-paragraph (c), after “his spouse's” insert “ or civil partner's ”; and\n(d) after sub-paragraph (f) insert—\n“(fa) had been living with him as a member of a same-sex couple for at least two of the three years before the relevant time;”.\n(4) In regulation 10(4)—\n(a) for sub-paragraph (a) substitute—\n“(a) “qualifying couple” means a married couple, an unmarried couple, a civil partnership couple or a same-sex couple, at least one of whom is aged 18 or over and neither of whom is aged under 16;”; and\n(b) for sub-paragraph (b) substitute—\n“(b) “lone parent” means a parent who is not a member of a married couple, an unmarried couple, a civil partnership couple or a same-sex couple;”\n(5) In regulation 15(2)—\n(a) after sub-paragraph (f) insert:\n“(fa) forms a civil partnership;”;\n(b) after sub-paragraph (g) insert:\n“(ga) starts living with a person as if a civil partner of that person;”;\n(c) after sub-paragraph (h) insert:\n“(ha) becomes a former civil partner on the dissolution of his civil partnership;”; and\n(d) after sub-paragraph (i) insert:\n“(ia) separates from his civil partner or from the person with whom he has been living as if a civil partner of that person;”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "S.I. 2000/704, to which there are amendments not relevant to this Order."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/2114/schedule/13/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:54:36.821483+00:00"
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  "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."
}