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Paragraph 4 I1

Northern Ireland

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

Any premises occupied in whole or in part –

(a)

by a F1person 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 F2has attained the qualifying age or is incapacitated ;

(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 F3or with whom he had formed a civil partnership that has been dissolved.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Words in Sch. 5 para. 4(a) substituted (4.10.2004) by The Social Security (Housing Benefit, State Pension Credit and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004 (S.R. 2004/394), regs. 1(1)(a), 6(6)

F2

Words in Sch. 5 para. 4(a) substituted (6.4.2010) by The Social Security (Equalisation of State Pension Age) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 (S.R. 2010/103), regs. 1(1), 7

F3

Words in Sch. 5 para. 4(b) inserted (5.12.2005) by The Civil Partnership (Pensions, Social Security and Child Support) (Consequential, etc. Provisions) Order (Northern Ireland) 2005 (S.R. 2005/536), art. 1, Sch. 3 para. 30(5)(a) (with art. 3)

Commencement

I1

Sch. 5 para. 4 in operation at 6.10.2003, see reg. 1(1)