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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-pensions-social-security-and-child-support-consequential-etc-provisions-order-2005/schedule-3/paragraph-23",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2005/2877",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Partnership (Pensions, Social Security and Child Support) (Consequential, etc. Provisions) Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-pensions-social-security-and-child-support-consequential-etc-provisions-order-2005",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/23",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Social Security (Incapacity Benefit – Increases for Dependants) Regulations 1994",
  "text": "(1) Amend the Social Security (Incapacity Benefit – Increases for Dependants) Regulations 1994 as follows.\n(2) In regulation 3 (allocation of contributions for a spouse) —\n(a) in the heading preceding it, after “spouse” add “ or civil partner ”;\n(b) after “spouse” (in each place) insert “ or civil partner ”.\n(3) In regulation 9 (increase of incapacity benefit for adult dependants and persons having the care of children), in paragraph (1) —\n(a) in sub-paragraph (a), after “spouse” (in each place) insert “ or civil partner ”;\n(b) in sub-paragraph (b), after “a spouse” insert “ or civil partner ”.\n(4) In regulation 12 (contribution to maintenance of adult dependant), in paragraph (1)—\n(a) in sub-paragraph (a)—\n(i) after “his spouse” insert “ or civil partner ”;\n(ii) after “that spouse's” insert “ , civil partner's ”.\n(b) in sub-paragraph (b), after “the spouse” insert “ , civil partner ”.\n(5) In regulation 14 (disqualification for receipt of increases in cases of imprisonment and absence abroad), in paragraph (1), after “the spouse” insert “ or civil partner ”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "S.I. 1994/2945."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "Regulation 3 was substituted by S.I. 2003/937."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "Paragraph (1) was amended by S.I. 2003/937."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/2877/schedule/3/paragraph/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:48:44.654045+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."
}