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Paragraph 6 I1

Northern Ireland

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

(1)

Where a claimant has ceased to occupy what was formerly the dwelling occupied as the home following his estrangement or divorce from F1, or dissolution of his civil partnership with, his former partner, that dwelling for a period of 26 weeks from the date on which he ceased to occupy that dwelling or, where the dwelling is occupied as the home by the former partner who is a lone parent, for so long as it is so occupied.

F2(2)

In this paragraph “dwelling” means the dwelling occupied as the home formerly so occupied by the claimant.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Words in Sch. 5 para. 6(1) 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)(b) (with art. 3)

F2

Sch. 5 para. 6(2) substituted (29.3.2004) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004 (S.R. 2004/45), regs. 1(1), 5(b)

Commencement

I1

Sch. 5 para. 6 in operation at 6.10.2003, see reg. 1(1)