Section 137 Interpretation of Part VII and supplementary provisions.F1

In this Part of this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—

• F2“billing authority” has the same meaning as in Part I of the Local Government Finance Act 1992;

• “child” means a person under the age of 16;

• F3“couple” means—

  1. (a)

     two people who are married to, or civil partners of, each other and are members of the same household; or

  2. (b)

     two people who are not married to, or civil partners of, each other but are living together F4as if they were a married couple or civil partners otherwise than in prescribed circumstances;

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• “dwelling” means any residential accommodation, whether or not consisting of the whole or part of a building and whether or not comprising separate and self-contained premises;

• “family” means—

  1. (a)

     a F6couple;

  2. (b)

     a couple and a member of the same household for whom one of them is or both are responsible and who is a child or a person of a prescribed description;

  3. (c)

     except in prescribed circumstances, a person who is not a member of a couple and a member of the same household for whom that person is responsible and who is a child or a person of a prescribed description;

• F7“income-based jobseeker’s allowance” has the same meaning as in the Jobseekers Act 1995;

• “industrial injuries scheme” means a scheme made under Schedule 8 to this Act or section 159 of the 1975 Act or under the Old Cases Act;

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• F9“local authority” in relation to Scotland means a council constituted under section 2 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994;

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• F11“pensionable age” has the meaning given by the rules in paragraph 1 of Schedule 4 to the Pensions Act 1995 (c. 26);

• “prescribed”means specified in or determined in accordance with regulations;

• “the qualifying age for state pension credit” is (in accordance with section 1(2)(b) and (6) of the State Pension Credit Act 2002)—

  1. (a)

     in the case of a woman, pensionable age; or

  2. (b)

     in the case of a man, the age which is pensionable age in the case of a woman born on the same day as the man;

• “state pension credit” means state pension credit under the State Pension Credit Act 2002;

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• “war pension scheme” means a scheme under which war pensions (as defined in section 25 of the M1Social Security Act 1989) are provided;

• “week”, in relation to F12council tax benefit, means a period of 7 days beginning with a Monday.

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Regulations may make provision for the purposes of this Part of this Act—