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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-civil-partnership-opposite-sex-couples-regulations-2019/schedule-3/paragraph-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-civil-partnership-opposite-sex-couples-regulations-2019/schedule-3/paragraph-20.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2019/9780111190784",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) Regulations 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-civil-partnership-opposite-sex-couples-regulations-2019",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/20",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Housing Act 1996",
  "text": "(1) The Housing Act 1996is amended as follows.\n(2) In section 62(1)(a), for “as husband and wife or as if they were” substitute “as if they were a married couple or”.\n(3) In section 140(1)(a), for “as husband and wife or as if they were” substitute “as if they were a married couple or”.\n(4) In section 178(3)—\n(a) in the definition of “co-habitants”, for paragraphs (a) and (b) substitute “two people who, although not married to, or civil partners of, each other, are living together as if they were a married couple or civil partners”;\n(b) in the definition of “relative”, in the words after paragraph (b)—\n(i) for “husband and wife” substitute “if they were a married couple or civil partners”;\n(ii) after “married to” insert “, or civil partners of,”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1996 c. 52."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Sections 62(1)(a) and 140(1)(a) were amended by the Civil Partnership Act 2004, Schedule 8, paragraph 51."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "The definitions of “cohabitants” and “relative” were amended by the Civil Partnership Act 2004, Schedule 8, paragraph 61."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2019/9780111190784/schedule/3/paragraph/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:59:17.448930+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."
}