Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2010
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Qualified adult. |
21.— Section 187 (amended by section 12 of the Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Act 2009 ) of the Principal Act is amended in the definition of “qualified adult”— | |
(a) by substituting the following for paragraph (a): | ||
“(a) in relation to the beneficiary— | ||
(i) the spouse of the beneficiary who is being wholly or mainly maintained by the beneficiary, | ||
(ii) the civil partner of the beneficiary who is being wholly or mainly maintained by the beneficiary, or | ||
(iii) the cohabitant of the beneficiary who is being wholly or mainly maintained by the beneficiary, | ||
or”, | ||
(b) in paragraph (b)(iii), by substituting “widower,” for “widower, or”, | ||
(c) in paragraph (b)(iv), by substituting “the married person’s spouse,” for “the married person’s spouse;”, and | ||
(d) inserting the following subparagraphs after paragraph (b)(iv): | ||
“(v) a surviving civil partner, or | ||
(vi) a civil partner who is not living with and is neither wholly nor mainly maintaining, nor being wholly or mainly maintained by, his or her civil partner;”. |