The Social Security (National Insurance Numbers) Amendment Regulations 2006

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

2.  In the Social Security (Crediting and Treatment of Contributions, and National Insurance Numbers) Regulations 2001(1), 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(2)”; and

(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(3) (new arrangements for giving financial support to students) or sections 73 to 74(1) of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980(4) 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.”.

(1)

S.I. 2001/769.

(2)

S.I. 2004/755, amended by S.I. 2006/1003.

(3)

1998 c. 30; section 22 was amended by section 146 of, and Schedule 11 to, the Learning and Skills Act 2000 (c. 21), Schedule 6 to the Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003 (c. 1), section 147(3) of the Finance Act 2003 (c. 14) and sections 42 and 43 of, and Schedule 7 to, the Higher Education Act 2004 (c. 8).

(4)

1980 (c. 44); section 73 was amended by section 29(1) of the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998 (c. 30) and section 3(2) of the Education (Graduate Endowment and Student Support) (Scotland) Act 2001 (asp 6); sections 73A, 73B, 73C and 73D were inserted by section 29(2) of the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998; section 74(1) was amended by paragraph 8(17) of, and Schedule 10 to, the Self Governing Schools etc. (Scotland) Act 1989 (c. 39). The functions of the Secretary of State were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46).