# The Social Security Benefit (Dependency) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1985, Regulation 2: Amendment of the Social Security Benefit (Dependency) Regulations 1977


(1) The Social Security Benefit (Dependency) Regulations 1977 (the “principal regulations”) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.
(2) In regulation 3(1) of the principal regulations after “44(1)(a),” there shall be inserted “44(3)(a),” and after “45(2)(b),” there shall be inserted “45A(2)(b), 47(1)(a),”
(3) For paragraph (5) of regulation 3 of the principal regulations there shall be substituted the following paragraph—
“(5) In the heading to this regulation and in paragraphs (1) and (2) the word “spouse” includes both husband and wife except in relation to maintenance contributions for the purposes of sections 44(1)(a) and 45(2)(b) where it means wife only, and in relation to maintenance contributions for the purposes of sections 44(3)(a), 45A(2)(b) and 47(1)(a) where it means husband only. ”

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1985/1305/regulation/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-benefit-dependency-amendment-no-2-regulations-1985/regulation-2
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