{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-schemes-act-1993/section-167",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-schemes-act-1993/section-167.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1993/48",
  "legislation_title": "Pension Schemes Act 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-schemes-act-1993",
  "path": "section/167",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "167",
  "heading": "Application of general provisions relating to administration of social security.",
  "text": "(1) The Social Security Administration Act 1992 shall apply as if references to that Act in the provisions mentioned in subsection (2) included references to the provisions referred to in section 164(1)(b) of this Act (in this section referred to as “the relevant provisions”).\n(2) The provisions referred to in subsection (1) are the following provisions of the Social Security Administration Act 1992—\nsection 116 (legal proceedings)\nsection 125 (regulations as to notification of deaths)\n...\nsection 180 (payment of travelling expenses by the Secretary of State).\nsection 180A (payment of travelling expenses by Inland Revenue).\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) Sections 124 to 124B of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 (provisions relating to age, death, marriage and civil partnership) shall apply as if information for the purposes mentioned in section 124(1) of that Act included information for the purposes of the relevant provisions.\n(6) Section 121 of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (treatment of certain marriages) shall apply to the relevant provisions.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 167(2) repealed (2.12.1999) by Northern Ireland Act 1998 (c. 47), ss. 100(2), 101(3), Sch. 15 (with s. 95); S.I. 1999/3209, art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 167(2) inserted (1.4.1999) by Social Security Contributions (Transfer of Functions, etc.) Act 1999 (c. 2), s. 28(3), Sch. 7 para. 18(2); S.I. 1999/527, art. 2(b), Sch. 2 (with arts. 3-6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 167(3) repealed (5.7.1999) by Social Security Contributions (Transfer of Functions, etc.) Act 1999 (c. 2), s. 28(3), Sch. 7 para. 18(3), Sch. 10 Pt. I; S.I. 1999/1662, art. 2(b), Sch. Pt. 2 (with art. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 167(4) repealed (5.7.1999 for specified purposes) by Social Security Act 1998 (c. 14), s. 87(2), Sch. 7 para. 130(2), Sch. 8; S.I. 1999/1958, art. 2(1)(b), Sch. 1 (with arts. 3, 5, Sch. 12)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 167(5) substituted (5.12.2005) by The Civil Partnership Act 2004 (Overseas Relationships and Consequential, etc. Amendments) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/3129), art. 1, Sch. 1 para. 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1992 c. 5."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1992 c. 4."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Ss. 1-187 in force at 7.2.1994 by S.I. 1994/86, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1993/48/section/167",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:34:33.061575+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."
}