{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-regulations-2006/regulation-23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-regulations-2006/regulation-23.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2006/213",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-regulations-2006",
  "path": "regulation/23",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Polygamous marriages",
  "text": "(1) Subject to regulations 24, 80 and 81 and Schedule A1 (patients, calculation of weekly amounts, rent free periods and treatment of claims for housing benefit by refugees), where a claimant is a member of a polygamous marriage, his weekly applicable amount shall be the aggregate of such of the following amounts as may apply in his case—\n(a) the highest amount applicable to him and one of his partners determined in accordance with paragraph 1(3) of Schedule 3 as if he and that partner were a couple;\n(b) an amount equal to the difference between the amounts specified in sub-paragraphs (3)(b) and (1)(b) of paragraph 1 of Schedule 3 in respect of each of his other partners;\n(c) an amount determined in accordance with paragraph 2 of Schedule 3 in respect of children or young persons for whom he or a partner of his is responsible and who are members of the same household;\n(d) if he or another partner of the polygamous marriage is responsible for a child or young person who is a member of the same household, the amount specified in Part 2 of Schedule 3 (family premium);\n(e) the amount of any premiums which may be applicable to him determined in accordance with Parts 3 and 4 of Schedule 3 (premiums).\n(f) the amount of the support component which may be applicable to him in accordance with Part 5 of Schedule 3 (the component);\n(g) the amount of any transitional addition which may be applicable to him in accordance with Parts 7 and 8 of Schedule 3 (transitional addition).\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 23(1): reg. 23 renumbered as reg. 23(1) (6.4.2017) by The Social Security (Restrictions on Amounts for Children and Qualifying Young Persons) Amendment Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/376), regs. 1, 7(3)(a) (with reg. 9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 23(1)(c) substituted (6.4.2017) by The Social Security (Restrictions on Amounts for Children and Qualifying Young Persons) Amendment Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/376), regs. 1, 7(3)(a) (with reg. 9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 23(1)(c) substituted (6.4.2026) by The Social Security (Removal of Two Child Limit) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/316), regs. 1(1), 2(3)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 23(d) omitted (1.5.2016) by virtue of The Housing Benefit (Abolition of the Family Premium and date of claim) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1857), regs. 1(b), 2(1)(b) (with reg. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Reg. 23(f) substituted (3.4.2017) by The Employment and Support Allowance and Universal Credit (Miscellaneous Amendments and Transitional and Savings Provisions) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/204), reg. 1, Sch. 1 para. 6(4) (with Sch. 2 paras. 1-7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Reg. 23(g) added (1.10.2010) by The Employment and Support Allowance (Transitional Provisions, Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit) (Existing Awards) (No. 2) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/1907), reg. 1(2), Sch. 5 para. 69(4) (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Reg. 23(2)-(5) omitted (6.4.2026) by virtue of The Social Security (Removal of Two Child Limit) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/316), regs. 1(1), 2(3)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "See the Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Consequential Provisions) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/217), regulation 7 and Schedule 4, paragraph 2, for regulation 10A and Schedule A1 (claims by refugees)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/213/regulation/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-06T03:35:43.605354+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."
}