{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-act-2004-tax-credits-etc-consequential-amendments-order-2005/article-6",
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  "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/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Tax Credits (Payments by the Commissioners) Regulations 2002",
  "text": "(1) The Tax Credits (Payments by the Commissioners) Regulations 2002 shall be amended as follows.\n(2) In regulation 2 (interpretation)—\n(a) after the definition of “the Commissioners” insert—\n“ “couple” has the meaning given by section 3(5A) of the Act;”; and\n(b) omit the definitions of “married couple” and “unmarried couple”.\n(3) In the provisions listed below for each reference (however expressed) to a married couple or an unmarried couple substitute “couple”.\nThe provisions are—\n(a) in regulation 3, paragraphs (2), (3) and (6);\n(b) in regulation 4, paragraphs (2), (3), (4) and (5); and\n(c) in regulation 5, paragraphs (1), (2) and (3).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2002/2173, the relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2005/2200 and S.I. 2004/1241."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/2919/article/6",
    "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."
}