{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/council-tax-reduction-schemes-prescribed-requirements-england-regulations-2012/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/council-tax-reduction-schemes-prescribed-requirements-england-regulations-2012/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2012/2885",
  "legislation_title": "The Council Tax Reduction Schemes (Prescribed Requirements) (England) Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/council-tax-reduction-schemes-prescribed-requirements-england-regulations-2012",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Meaning of “couple”",
  "text": "In these Regulations, “couple” means—\n(a) two people who are married to, or civil partners of, each other and 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.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 substituted (13.3.2014) by The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/107), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 54"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4(b) substituted (11.2.2020 with application in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Council Tax Reduction Schemes (Prescribed Requirements) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/23), regs. 1(1), 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 in force at 27.11.2012, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/2885/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:13:07.880127+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."
}