{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-civil-partnership-opposite-sex-couples-regulations-2019/schedule-3/paragraph-64",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-civil-partnership-opposite-sex-couples-regulations-2019/schedule-3/paragraph-64.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/64",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "64",
  "heading": "Child Benefit and Guardian’s Allowance (Administration) Regulations 2003",
  "text": "(1) The Child Benefit and Guardian’s Allowance (Administration) Regulations 2003 are amended as follows.\n(2) In regulation 2—\n(a) in the definition of “civil partnership”, omit “of the same sex”;\n(b) for the definition of “cohabiting same-sex couple” substitute—\n““cohabiting couple” means two people who are not a married couple or in a civil partnership but are living together as if they were married or civil partners;”;\n(c) in the definition of “partner”, for “an unmarried couple” to the end substitute “a civil partnership or a cohabiting couple”;\n(d) omit the definition of “unmarried couple”.\n(3) In regulation 34—\n(a) in paragraph (1), for “member of a married couple or an unmarried couple” substitute “person with a partner”;\n(b) in paragraph (2)—\n(i) for “wife” substitute “woman”;\n(ii) after “husband” insert “or male civil partner”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2003/492, amended by S.I. 2003/495 and 2005/2919."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2019/9780111190784/schedule/3/paragraph/64",
    "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."
}