Review Panel on Common Law Relationships
Opinion on Common-Law Relationships of Jennifer Cooper

Volume 2
Proposed Statute Changes

Proposed Changes to the
Employment and Income Assistance Act

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Definitions

1 In this Act

   Definitions

1 In this Act

"common-law partner" means a person who, not being married to the other person, cohabits with him or her in a conjugal relationship.
Common law relationships

5(5) Where a man and a woman who are not legally married to each other are living together under circumstances that indicate to the director that they are living together as if they were married to each other, they shall, for the purposes of this Act and the regulations, be considered as legally married to one another and any application by either or both of them for income assistance or general assistance shall be dealt with in every respect as thought they were married to one another.

   Common law relationships

5(5) Where a man and a woman two persons who are not legally married to each other are living together under circumstances that indicate to the director that they are living together as if they were married to each other common-law partners, they shall, for the purposes of this Act and the regulations, be considered as legally married to one another and any application by either or both of them for income assistance or general assistance shall be dealt with in every respect as thought they were married to one another.

 

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