Application of 1981 Act to cohabiting couples of same sex

I134Application of 1981 Act to cohabiting couples of same sex

1

Section 18 of the 1981 Act (occupancy rights of cohabiting couples) shall be amended in accordance with subsections (2) and (3).

2

In subsection (1)—

a

after “wife” there shall be inserted “ or two persons of the same sex are living together as if they were civil partners ”;

b

after “wife (”, there shall be inserted “ in either case ”; and

c

for “man and the woman” there shall be substituted “ entitled partner and the non-entitled partner ”.

3

In subsection (2)—

a

for “a man and a woman” there shall be substituted “ two persons ”; and

b

in paragraph (b), for the words from “are” to the end of that paragraph there shall be substituted

is any child—

i

of whom they are the parents; or

ii

who they have treated as a child of theirs.