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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-early-years-assistance-best-start-grants-scotland-regulations-2018/regulation-8",
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  "legislation": "sdsi/2018/9780111039694",
  "legislation_title": "The Early Years Assistance (Best Start Grants) (Scotland) Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-early-years-assistance-best-start-grants-scotland-regulations-2018",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Meaning of “partner”",
  "text": "An individual is to be regarded as the partner of another individual on a day only if, on that day, the two individuals would be regarded as a couple for the purposes of Part 1 of the Welfare Reform Act 2012 (see section 39 of that Act).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2012 c.5."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 39 is amended by S.I. 2014/3229"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2018/9780111039694/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:33:10.884640+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."
}