{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-act-2004-tax-credits-etc-consequential-amendments-order-2005/article-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-act-2004-tax-credits-etc-consequential-amendments-order-2005/article-12.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/2919",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Partnership Act 2004 (Tax Credits, etc.) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-act-2004-tax-credits-etc-consequential-amendments-order-2005",
  "path": "article/12",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Child Benefit and Guardian’s Allowance (Administration) Regulations 2003",
  "text": "(1) The Child Benefit and Guardian’s Allowance (Administration) Regulations 2003 shall be amended as follows.\n(2) In regulation 2 (interpretation)—\n(a) after the definition of “the Board” insert—\n“ “civil partnership” means two people of the same sex who are civil partners of each other and are neither—\n(a) separated under a court order, nor\n(b) separated in circumstances in which the separation is likely to be permanent;\n“cohabiting same-sex couple” means two people of the same sex who are not civil partners of each other but are living together as if they were civil partners;”; and\n(b) in the definition of “partner” substitute—\n“ “partner” means a member of a married couple, an unmarried couple, or a cohabiting same-sex couple or a civil partnership”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2003/492."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/2919/article/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:48:26.402497+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."
}