{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-regulations-northern-ireland-2006/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-regulations-northern-ireland-2006/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2006/405",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-regulations-northern-ireland-2006",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Cases in which section 1(1A) of the Administration Act is disapplied",
  "text": "Section 1(1A) of the Administration Act (requirement to state national insurance number) shall not apply—\n(a) to a claim for housing benefit where the person making the claim, or in respect of whom the claim is made, is liable to make payments in respect of a dwelling which is a hostel; ...\n(b) to any child or young person in respect of whom housing benefit is claimed ; or\n(c) to a person who—\n(i) is a person in respect of whom a claim for housing benefit is made;\n(ii) is subject to immigration control within the meaning of section 115(9)(a) of the Immigration and Asylum Act;\n(iii) is a person from abroad for the purposes of these Regulations as defined in regulation 10(2), and\n(iv) has not previously been allocated a national insurance number.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in reg. 4(a) omitted (6.4.2009) by virtue of The Social Security (National Insurance Number Information: Exemption) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009 (S.R. 2009/90), regs. 1(1), 9(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in reg. 4(b) added (6.4.2009) by The Social Security (National Insurance Number Information: Exemption) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009 (S.R. 2009/90), regs. 1(1), 9(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 4(c) added (6.4.2009) by The Social Security (National Insurance Number Information: Exemption) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009 (S.R. 2009/90), regs. 1(1), 9(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Regs. 3-6 applied (with modifications) (1.4.2007) by The Rate Relief (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007 (S.R. 2007/204), regs. 1(1), 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 in operation at 20.11.2006, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Subsection (1A) was inserted by Article 18 of the Social Security Administration (Fraud) (Northern Ireland) Order 1997"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2006/405/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-12T03:38:14.194536+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."
}