Regulation 11 Disclosures relating to national insurance numbers

After regulation 35 of the 2001 Regulations insert:

“Disclosures relating to national insurance numbers

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(1)

The Department for Work and Pensions (“the Department”) shall, following a request by the Chief Electoral Officer for Northern Ireland (“the relevant Officer”), disclose to him the matters set out in paragraph (2) below in respect of the individual specified or described in the request.

(2)

Those matters are either—

(a)

that the individual in question is not recorded as having a national insurance number, or

(b)

the number recorded in respect of that individual together with—

(i)

any name and former name,

(ii)

the date of birth,

(iii)

the sex, and

(iv)

the address,

as recorded by the Department in respect of him.

(3)

The Department may charge fees to the relevant Officer to cover its expenses in complying with such requests.”.