{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-law-scotland-act-2006/section-34",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-law-scotland-act-2006/section-34.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2006/2",
  "legislation_title": "Family Law (Scotland) Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-law-scotland-act-2006",
  "path": "section/34",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "34",
  "heading": "Application of 1981 Act to cohabiting couples of same sex",
  "text": "(1) Section 18 of the 1981 Act (occupancy rights of cohabiting couples) shall be amended in accordance with subsections (2) and (3).\n(2) In subsection (1)—\n(a) after “wife” there shall be inserted “ or two persons of the same sex are living together as if they were civil partners ”;\n(b) after “wife (”, there shall be inserted “ in either case ”; and\n(c) for “man and the woman” there shall be substituted “ entitled partner and the non-entitled partner ”.\n(3) In subsection (2)—\n(a) for “a man and a woman” there shall be substituted “ two persons ”; and\n(b) in paragraph (b), for the words from “are” to the end of that paragraph there shall be substituted\n“is any child—\n(i) of whom they are the parents; or\n(ii) who they have treated as a child of theirs.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 34 in force at 4.5.2006 by S.S.I. 2006/212, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2006/2/section/34",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:16:18.094952+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."
}