{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/council-tax-benefit-general-regulations-1992/regulation-9",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1992/1814",
  "legislation_title": "The Council Tax Benefit (General) Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/council-tax-benefit-general-regulations-1992",
  "path": "regulation/9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Polygamous marriages",
  "text": "Subject to regulation 10 (patients), where a claimant is a member of a polygamous marriage, his weekly applicable amount shall be the aggregate of such of the following amounts as may apply in his case—\n(a) the amount applicable to him and one of his partners determined in accordance with paragraph 1(3) of Schedule 1 (applicable amounts) as if he and that partner were a couple;\n(b) an amount equal to the difference between the amounts specified in subparagraphs (3) and (1)(b) of paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 in respect of each of his other partners;\n(c) an amount determined in accordance with paragraph 2 of Schedule 1 (applicable amounts) in respect of any child or young person for whom he or a partner of his is responsible and who is a member of the same household, except a child or young person whose capital, if calculated in accordance with Chapter VI of Part IV (income and capital) in like manner as for the claimant , except as provided in regulation 27(5) (modifications in respect of child or young person), would exceed £3,000;\n(d) if he or another partner of the polygamous marriage is responsible for a child or young person who is a member of the same household, the amount specified in Part II of Schedule 1 (family premium);\n(e) the amount of any premiums which may be applicable to him determined in accordance with Parts III and IV of Schedule 1 (premiums).",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 9(c) inserted (4.10.1993) by The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1993 (S.I. 1993/2118), regs. 1(1), 19"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Reg. 9(c): sum confirmed (1.4.1993) by The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 1993 (S.I. 1993/349), arts. 1(2)(a), 20(1)(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 9 in force at 1.4.1993, see reg. 1(b)"
    }
  ],
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      "affecting_title": "The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2000"
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      "type": "sum amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/522",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2005"
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    {
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      "affecting_title": "The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2003"
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    {
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      "affecting_title": "The Social Security Benefits Up-rating (No. 2) Order 2000"
    },
    {
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      "affecting": "uksi/1996/599",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 1996"
    },
    {
      "type": "sum confirmed",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/264",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 1999"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1996/2432",
      "affecting_title": "The Council Tax Benefit and Housing Benefit (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1996"
    },
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2004/2327",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Housing Benefit, Council Tax Benefit, State Pension Credit and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2004"
    },
    {
      "type": "modified",
      "affecting": "uksi/2002/668",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2002"
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    {
      "type": "modified",
      "affecting": "uksi/1994/542",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 1994"
    },
    {
      "type": "sum confirmed",
      "affecting": "uksi/1998/470",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 1998"
    },
    {
      "type": "sum confirmed",
      "affecting": "uksi/1997/543",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 1997"
    },
    {
      "type": "sum confirmed",
      "affecting": "uksi/1995/559",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 1995"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1996/599",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 1996"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1997/543",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 1997"
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    {
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      "affecting_title": "The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2000"
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  "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."
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