{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-insurance-act-1974/section-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-insurance-act-1974/section-8.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1974/14",
  "legislation_title": "National Insurance Act 1974",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-insurance-act-1974",
  "path": "section/8",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "†Citation, construction, commencement, repeals and extent.",
  "text": "(1) This Act may be cited as the National Insurance Act 1974.\n2)–(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(6) The following provisions only of this Act extend to Northern Ireland, namely—\n(a) subsections (1) and (3) of section 6, so far as those subsections relate to a decision or record of a decision given with respect to any question arising under or in connection with the Social Security Act 1973 . . . , and subsections (4) and (5) of that section;\n(b) this section . . . ;\n(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ;\n(d) Schedules 4 to 6 so far as they relate to enactments which extend to Northern Ireland . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 7, 8(2)–(4) repealed by Social Security (Consequential Provisions) Act 1975 (c. 18), s. 2, Sch. 1 Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 8(5) repealed by Supplementary Benefits Act 1976 (c. 71), Sch. 8 Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words and s. 8(6)(c) repealed by Social Security (Consequential Provisions) Act 1975 (c. 18), s. 2, Sch. 1 Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1973 c. 38."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Unreliable marginal note"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/14/section/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:45:57.110046+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."
}