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Amendment to Part 6 of Principal Act.
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22.— The Principal Act is amended in section 227 (amended by section 22 of the Act of 2008)—
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(a) by inserting the following definition:
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“ ‘civil partner’ includes a civil partner whose civil partnership has been dissolved, being a dissolution that is recognised as valid in the State;”,
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(b) in the definition of “family”, by substituting the following paragraph for paragraph (b):
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“(b) where that person is living with or wholly or mainly maintaining—
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(i) his or her spouse,
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(ii) his or her civil partner, or
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(iii) his or her cohabitant,
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that spouse, civil partner or cohabitant, and”,
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and
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(c) in the definition of “spouse”, by deleting paragraph (b).
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