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Paragraph 26 I1

Northern Ireland

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

Where a claimant has ceased to occupy what was formerly the dwelling occupied as the home following his estrangement or divorce from, or dissolution of his civil partnership with, his former partner, that dwelling for a period of 26 weeks from the date on which he ceased to occupy that dwelling or, where the dwelling is occupied as the home by the former partner who is a lone parent, for so long as it is so occupied.

Annotations

Commencement

I1

Sch. 7 para. 26 in operation at 20.11.2006, see reg. 1(1)

Notes on Schedule 7

Modifications

C1

Sch. 7 applied (with modifications) (1.4.2007) by The Rate Relief (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007 (S.R. 2007/204), regs. 1(1), 19(4)