{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-credits-regulations-1975/schedule/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-credits-regulations-1975/schedule/paragraph-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1975/556",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Credits) Regulations 1975",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-credits-regulations-1975",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "For the purposes of paragraph 1(9) and (11)(c), a partner is the other member of a couple consisting of two people who are not married to or civil partners of each other but are living together as if they were a married couple or civil partners.\n(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. inserted (5.4.2011) by The National Insurance Contributions Credits (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/709), regs. 1, 2(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. para. 3 inserted (10.12.2014 for E.W., 16.12.2014 for S.) by The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 and Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2014 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/3061), art. 1(2)(3), Sch. 1 para. 4(3)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. para. 3 substituted (2.12.2019) by The Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1458), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 37(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Sch. para. 3(a)(b) omitted (10.12.2014 for E.W., 16.12.2014 for S.) by virtue of The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 and Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2014 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/3061), art. 1(2)(3), Sch. 1 para. 4(3)(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1975/556/schedule/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:12:11.103774+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."
}