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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-pensions-social-security-and-child-support-consequential-etc-provisions-order-2005/schedule-3/paragraph-4",
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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/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Social Security (Credits) Regulations 1975",
  "text": "(1) Amend the Social Security (Credits) Regulations 1975 as follows.\n(2) In regulation 7A (credits for carer's allowance) , in paragraph (1) for “widow or widower” substitute “ widow, widower or surviving civil partner ”.\n(3) In regulation 7C (credits for working tax credit) —\n(a) in paragraphs (2)(a) and (3) for “a married or unmarried couple” substitute “ a couple ”;\n(b) in paragraph (6) for “ “married couple” and “unmarried couple” have” substitute\n““couple ”\nhas ”.\n(4) In regulation 8C (credits on termination of bereavement benefits) , in paragraph (2) after “remarriage” insert “ , forming a civil partnership, ”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "S.I. 1975/556."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "Regulation 7A was inserted by S.I. 1976/409, and paragraph (1) was amended by S.I. 1987/414, S.I. 1988/1545, S.I. 2000/1483, S.I. 2002/490 and S.I. 2002/2497."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "Regulation 7C was inserted by S.I. 1995/2558, and amended by S.I. 1996/2367, S.I. 2000/1483 and S.I. 2003/455."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M4",
      "text": "Paragraph 46 of Schedule 24 to the Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33) inserts a definition of “couple” into Part 7 of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (c. 4) and removes the definitions of “married couple” and “unmarried couple”."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M5",
      "text": "Regulation 8C was inserted by S.I. 2000/1483."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/2877/schedule/3/paragraph/4",
    "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."
}