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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/state-pension-credit-regulations-2002/schedule-V/paragraph-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2002/1792",
  "legislation_title": "The State Pension Credit Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/state-pension-credit-regulations-2002",
  "path": "schedule/V/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Any premises occupied in whole or in part—\n(a) by a person who is a close relative, grandparent, grandchild, uncle, aunt, nephew or niece of the claimant or of his partner as his home where that person has attained the qualifying age for state pension credit or is incapacitated;\n(b) by the former partner of the claimant as his home; but this provision shall not apply where the former partner is a person from whom the claimant is estranged or divorced or with whom he had formed a civil partnership that has been dissolved.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. V para. 4(a) substituted (4.10.2004) by The Social Security (Housing Benefit, Council Tax Benefit, State Pension Credit and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2004 (S.I. 2004/2327), regs. 1(1)(a), 7(6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. V para. 4(a) substituted (6.4.2010) by The Social Security (Equalisation of State Pension Age) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/1488), regs. 1, 23(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. V para. 4(b) 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. 35(5)(a) (with art. 3)"
    }
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