{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-act-2004-modification-of-subordinate-legislation-order-2005/article-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-act-2004-modification-of-subordinate-legislation-order-2005/article-11.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2005/572",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Partnership Act 2004 (Modification of Subordinate Legislation) Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-act-2004-modification-of-subordinate-legislation-order-2005",
  "path": "article/11",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Council Tax (Discounts) (Scotland) Regulations 1992",
  "text": "In regulation 2 (care workers)–\n(a) in paragraph (3)(b) after “spouse” insert “, civil partner”; and\n(b) for paragraph (4) there is substituted–\n“(4) For the purposes of sub paragraph (b) of paragraph (3) above–\n(a) a person is the spouse of another if they are a man and a woman–\n(i) who are married to each other; or\n(ii) who are not married to each other but are living together as husband and wife; and\n(b) a person is the civil partner of another if they are of the same sex and–\n(i) are civil partners of each other; or\n(ii) are not civil partners of each other but are living together as civil partners to each other.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2005/572/article/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:23:08.328428+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."
}