# The Civil Partnership Act 2004 (Amendments to Subordinate Legislation) Order 2005, Paragraph 2: Asylum Support Regulations 2000


(1) Amend the Asylum Support Regulations 2000 as follows.
(2) In regulation 2(1)—
(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
(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; ”.
(3) In regulation 2(4)—
(a) in sub-paragraph (a), after “is his spouse” insert “ or civil partner ”;
(b) in sub-paragraph (b), after “is a child of his or of his spouse” insert “ or civil partner ”;
(c) in sub-paragraph (c), after “his spouse's” insert “ or civil partner's ”; and
(d) after sub-paragraph (f) insert—
“(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;”.
(4) In regulation 10(4)—
(a) for sub-paragraph (a) substitute—
“(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
(b) for sub-paragraph (b) substitute—
“(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;”
(5) In regulation 15(2)—
(a) after sub-paragraph (f) insert:
“(fa) forms a civil partnership;”;
(b) after sub-paragraph (g) insert:
“(ga) starts living with a person as if a civil partner of that person;”;
(c) after sub-paragraph (h) insert:
“(ha) becomes a former civil partner on the dissolution of his civil partnership;”; and
(d) after sub-paragraph (i) insert:
“(ia) separates from his civil partner or from the person with whom he has been living as if a civil partner of that person;”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/2114/schedule/13/paragraph/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-act-2004-amendments-to-subordinate-legislation-order-2005/schedule-13/paragraph-2
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