{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-and-family-allowances-polygamous-marriages-regulations-1975/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-and-family-allowances-polygamous-marriages-regulations-1975/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1975/561",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security and Family Allowances (Polygamous Marriages) Regulations 1975",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-and-family-allowances-polygamous-marriages-regulations-1975",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "General rule as to the consequences of a polygamous marriage for the purpose of the Social Security Act and the Family Allowances Act",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the following provisions of these regulations, a polygamous marriage shall, for the purpose of the Social Security Act and the Family Allowances Act and any enactment construed as one with those Acts, be treated as having the same consequences as a monogamous marriage for any day, but only for any day, throughout which the polygamous marriage is in fact monogamous.\n(2) In this and the next following regulation—\n(a) a polygamous marriage is referred to as being in fact monogamous when neither party to it has any spouse additional to the other; and\n(b) the day on which a polygamous marriage is contracted, or on which it terminates for any reason, shall be treated as a day throughout which that marriage was in fact monogamous if at all times on that day after it was contracted, or as the case may be, before it terminated, it was in fact monogamous.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1975/561/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:12:05.937444+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."
}