{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-support-allowance-regulations-2008/regulation-2A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-support-allowance-regulations-2008/regulation-2A.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/794",
  "legislation_title": "The Employment and Support Allowance Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-support-allowance-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/2A",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2A",
  "heading": "Disapplication of section 1(1A) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992",
  "text": "Section 1(1A) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 (requirement to state a national insurance number) shall not apply to a person who—\n(a) is a person in respect of whom a claim for employment and support allowance is made;\n(b) is subject to immigration control within the meaning of section 115(9)(a) of the Immigration and Asylum Act;\n(c) does not satisfy the basic conditions of entitlement to employment and support allowance for the purposes of section 1(3) of the Act; and\n(d) has not previously been allocated a national insurance number.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 2A inserted (6.4.2009) by The Social Security (National Insurance Number Information: Exemption) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/471), regs. 1, 13"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/794/regulation/2A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-06T03:37:55.280707+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}