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  "legislation": "nisr/2006/405",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006",
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  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Any premises occupied in whole or in part as his home by—\n(a) a partner or relative of a single claimant or any member of the family where that person has attained the qualifying age for state pension credit or is incapacitated;\n(b) the former partner of the claimant; but this provision shall not apply where the former partner is a person from whom the claimant is estranged or divorced or with whom he had formed a civil partnership that has been dissolved.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
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      "text": "Words in Sch. 7 para. 4(a) substituted (6.4.2010) by The Social Security (Equalisation of State Pension Age) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 (S.R. 2010/103), regs. 1(1), 8(5)"
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      "text": "Sch. 7 para. 4 in operation at 20.11.2006, see reg. 1(1)"
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