{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-injuries-civilians-amendment-no3-scheme-2005/schedule-1/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2005/3031",
  "legislation_title": "The Personal Injuries (Civilians) (Amendment) (No.3) Scheme 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-injuries-civilians-amendment-no3-scheme-2005",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Amendment of article 2 (definitions)",
  "text": "Article 2 shall be amended as follows—\n(1) in sub-paragraph 3(a)(ii) delete the words “a widow or has never been married or is married to a husband who is”;\n(2) in sub-paragraph 3(a)(iv) delete the words “has never been married or is a widow or is married to a husband who”;\n(3) for paragraph (8) there shall be substituted—\n““dependant living as a civil partner” in relation to a person who has sustained a qualifying injury, means—\n(a) where the injured person is alive, a person of the same sex who, 6 months before the material date, was being wholly or substantially maintained by the injured person on a permanent bona fide domestic basis and who has been continuously thereafter and is still being maintained by the injured person on such a basis;\n(b) where the injured person is dead, a person of the same sex who was wholly or substantially maintained by the injured person on a permanent bona fide domestic basis continuously throughout the period beginning 6 months before the material date and ending with the date of the injured person’s death;\nand “dependant who lived as a civil partner” shall be construed accordingly;”\n(4) for paragraph (9) there shall be substituted—\n““dependant living as a spouse”, in relation to a person who has sustained a qualifying injury, means—\n(a) where the injured person is alive, a person of the opposite sex who, 6 months before the material date, was being wholly or substantially maintained by the injured person on a permanent bona fide domestic basis and who has been continuously thereafter and is still being maintained by the injured person on such a basis;\n(b) where the injured person is dead, a person of the opposite sex who was wholly or substantially maintained by the injured person on a permanent bona fide domestic basis continuously throughout the period beginning 6 months before the material date and ending with the date of the injured person’s death;\nand “dependant who lived as a spouse” shall be constructed accordingly;”\n(5) in paragraph (10) for the words “wife, husband” there shall be substituted “spouse, civil partner”;\n(6) in sub-paragraph (16)(d) for the words “spouse (not being a separated spouse)” there shall be substituted “spouse (not being a separated spouse) or civil partner (not being a separated civil partner)”;\n(7) in paragraph (21A) for the words “dependent widower” there shall be substituted “widower”;\n(8) paragraph (21B) shall be omitted; and\n(9) paragraph (22) shall be omitted.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/3031/schedule/1/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:47:44.946079+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."
}