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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-marriage-same-sex-couples-act-2013-consequential-and-contrary-provisions-and-scotland-order-2014/schedule-1/paragraph-32",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2014/9780111108727",
  "legislation_title": "The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 (Consequential and Contrary Provisions and Scotland) Order 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-marriage-same-sex-couples-act-2013-consequential-and-contrary-provisions-and-scotland-order-2014",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/32",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "32",
  "heading": "Welfare Reform Act 2007",
  "text": "(1) Paragraph 6 of Schedule 1 to the Welfare Reform Act 2007 (income-related allowance) is amended as follows.\n(2) In sub-paragraph (5), for the definition of “couple” substitute—\n““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 a married couple otherwise than in prescribed circumstances;”.\n(3) Omit sub-paragraph (6).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2007 c. 5; paragraph 6 of Schedule 1 was amended by the Welfare Reform Act 2009 (c. 24), sections 5(2), 9(3)(b) and 58(1) and Schedule 7, and repealed by Part 1 of Schedule 14 to the Welfare Reform Act 2012. That repeal has been brought into force for certain purposes, but has yet to be brought into force for the remaining purposes."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2014/9780111108727/schedule/1/paragraph/32",
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  },
  "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."
}