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Article 68 Power to reduce child benefit for lone parentsF1

Northern Ireland

(1)

Regulations may revoke any provision of regulations which prescribes a higher rate of child benefit in the case of a lone parent, notwithstanding anything in section 141(4) of the Contributions and Benefits Act (which precludes regulations from prescribing a rate lower than the rate it replaces).

(2)

In this Article “lone parent” means a parent who—

(a)

has no spouseF2 or civil partner or is not living with his spouse or civil partner; and

(b)

is not living with any other person F3as if spouses of each other .

F4(3)

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Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

prosp. in pt. functions transf. by 2002 c. 21

F2

2004 c.33

F3

Words in art. 68(2)(b) substituted (13.1.2020) by The Marriage (Same-sex Couples) and Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1514), regs. 1(2), 70(a) (with regs. 6-9)

F4

Art. 68(3) omitted (13.1.2020) by virtue of The Marriage (Same-sex Couples) and Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1514), regs. 1(2), 70(b) (with regs. 6-9)

Notes on the whole Order

Textual amendments

F1

functions transf. by SR 1999/481