{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/council-tax-reduction-schemes-default-scheme-england-regulations-2012/schedule/paragraph-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/council-tax-reduction-schemes-default-scheme-england-regulations-2012/schedule/paragraph-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2012/2886",
  "legislation_title": "The Council Tax Reduction Schemes (Default Scheme) (England) Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/council-tax-reduction-schemes-default-scheme-england-regulations-2012",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Meaning of “couple”",
  "text": "(1) In this scheme “couple” means—\n(a) two people who are married to, or civil partners of, each other and who are members of the same household; or\n(b) two people who are not married to, or civil partners of, each other but are living together as if they were a married couple or civil partners.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. Scheme para. 4(1)(a)(b) substituted for Sch. Scheme para. 4(1)(a)-(d) (2.12.2019) by The Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1458), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 96(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. Scheme para. 4(2) omitted (2.12.2019) by virtue of The Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1458), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 96(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/2886/schedule/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:13:07.026808+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."
}