{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-incapacity-benefit-increases-for-dependants-regulations-1994/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-incapacity-benefit-increases-for-dependants-regulations-1994/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1994/2945",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Incapacity Benefit — Increases for Dependants) Regulations 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-incapacity-benefit-increases-for-dependants-regulations-1994",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Allocation of contributions for a spouse or civil partner",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of the Contributions and Benefits Act insofar as it relates to incapacity benefit, any sum paid by a person by way of contribution towards the maintenance of his spouse or civil partner shall be treated for the purposes of regulations 9 and 12 as such contributions of such respective amounts equal in aggregate to the sum in respect of his spouse or civil partner as would secure as large a payment as possible by way of benefit in respect of dependants.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 substituted (6.4.2003) by The Social Security (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit) (Consequential Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/937), regs. 1(b), 2(7)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3 inserted (5.12.2005) by The Civil Partnership (Pensions, Social Security and Child Support) (Consequential, etc. Provisions) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/2877), art. 1, Sch. 3 para. 23(2)(b) (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3 heading added (5.12.2005) by The Civil Partnership (Pensions, Social Security and Child Support) (Consequential, etc. Provisions) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/2877), art. 1, Sch. 3 para. 23(2)(a) (with art. 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/2945/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:22:59.692562+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."
}