The Social Security (National Insurance Numbers) Amendment Regulations 2006

• Citation: S.I. 2006/2897
• Sections: 2

Section 1 Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security (National Insurance Numbers) Amendment Regulations 2006 and shall come into force on 11th December 2006 except for regulation 2(b) which shall come into force on 1st March 2007.

Section 2 Amendment of the Social Security (Crediting and Treatment of Contributions, and National Insurance Numbers) Regulations 2001

In the Social Security (Crediting and Treatment of Contributions, and National Insurance Numbers) Regulations 2001 , in regulation 9 (application for allocation of national insurance number)—

(a) after paragraph (1) insert—

(1A) An application under paragraph (1) shall be accompanied by a document of a description specified for the time being in Part 1 or Part 2, except paragraph 1(a) of Part 2, of the Schedule to the Immigration (Restrictions on Employment) Order 2004

(b) after paragraph (3) add—

(4) Where a person—

(a) qualifies for a loan made in accordance with regulations made under section 22 of the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998 (new arrangements for giving financial support to students) or sections 73 to 74(1) of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980 in connection with an academic year beginning on or after 1st September 2007; and

(b) has been required as a condition of entitlement to payment of the loan to provide his national insurance number,

he shall, unless he has already been allocated a national insurance number, apply to the Secretary of State or the Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs for one to be allocated to him, and the Secretary of State or, as the case may be, the Commissioners may direct how the application is to be made.