{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-civil-partnership-consequential-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-2005/regulation-6",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2005/539",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Civil Partnership) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-civil-partnership-consequential-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-2005",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations",
  "text": "(1) The Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987 shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).\n(2) In regulation 6(22) (date of claim) in the definition of “family”, for “a married or unmarried couple” there shall be substituted “a couple”.\n(3) In regulation 19(3B) (time for claiming benefit) after “spouse” there shall be inserted “or civil partner”.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 6 in operation at 5.12.2005, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 1987 No. 465; relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 1997 No. 156, S.R. 2000 No. 215, S.R. 2002 No. 67 and S.R. 2005 Nos. 46 and 139"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Paragraph (22) was substituted by regulation 3(2)(a) of S.R. 2000 No. 215; the definition of “family” was added by regulation 2(2)(f)(iii) of S.R. 2002 No. 67 and amended by regulation 5(4)(c)(ii) of S.R. 2005 No. 46"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Regulation 19 was substituted by regulation 3(7) of S.R. 1997 No. 156 and paragraph (3B) was inserted by regulation 2(2)(c) of S.R. 2005 No. 139"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2005/539/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:49:31.031814+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."
}