{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-administration-act-1992/section-125",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-administration-act-1992/section-125.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1992/5",
  "legislation_title": "Social Security Administration Act 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-administration-act-1992",
  "path": "section/125",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "125",
  "heading": "Regulations as to notification of deaths",
  "text": "(1) Regulations made with the concurrence of the Inland Revenue may provide that it shall be the duty of any of the following persons—\n(a) the Registrar General for England and Wales;\n(b) the Registrar General of Births, Deaths and Marriages for Scotland;\n(c) each registrar of births and deaths,\nto furnish the Secretary of State, or the Inland Revenue, for the purposes of their respective functions under the Contributions and Benefits Act , the Jobseekers Act 1995, the Social Security (Recovery of Benefits) Act 1997 , the Social Security Act 1998 , the State Pension Credit Act 2002 , Part 1 of the Welfare Reform Act 2007 , Part 1 of the Welfare Reform Act 2012 , Part 4 of that Act , Part 1 of the Pensions Act 2014 , section 30 of that Act and this Act and the functions of the Northern Ireland Department under any Northern Ireland legislation corresponding to any of those Acts, with the prescribed particulars of such deaths as may be prescribed.\n(2) The regulations may make provision as to the manner in which the times at which the particulars are to be furnished.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 125(1) inserted (25.2.1999 for specified purposes, 1.4.1999 in so far as not already in force) by Social Security Contributions (Transfer of Functions, etc.) Act 1999 (c. 2), s. 28(2)(a), Sch. 1 para. 25(a); S.I. 1999/527, art. 2(b), Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 125(1) inserted (25.2.1999 for specified purposes, 1.4.1999 in so far as not already in force) by Social Security Contributions (Transfer of Functions, etc.) Act 1999 (c. 2), s. 28(2)(a), Sch. 1 para. 25(b); S.I. 1999/527, art. 2(b), Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 125(1) inserted (11.6.1996) by Jobseekers Act 1995 (c. 18), s. 41(2), Sch. 2 para. 60(a); S.I. 1996/1509, art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 125(1) inserted (6.10.1997) by Social Security (Recovery of Benefits) Act 1997 (c. 27), Sch. 3 para. 5; S.I. 1997/2085, art. 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 125(1) inserted (5.7.1999 for specified purposes, 6.9.1999 for specified purposes, 5.10.1999 for specified purposes, 18.10.1999 for specified purposes, 29.11.1999 for specified purposes) by Social Security Act 1998 (c. 14), s. 87(2), Sch. 7 para. 89; S.I. 1999/1958, art. 2(1)(b), Sch. 1; S.I. 1999/2422, art. 2(c), Sch. 1; S.I. 1999/2739, art. 2, Sch. 1; S.I. 1999/2860, art. 2, Sch. 1; S.I. 1999/3178, art. 2(1)(a), Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 125(1) inserted (2.7.2002 for specified purposes, 6.10.2003 in so far as not already in force) by State Pension Credit Act 2002 (c. 16), s. 22(3), Sch. 2 para. 14; S.I. 2002/1691, art. 2(l); S.I. 2003/1766, art. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in s. 125(1) inserted (27.10.2008) by Welfare Reform Act 2007 (c. 5), s. 70(2), Sch. 3 para. 10(17); S.I. 2008/787, art. 2(4)(f)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in s. 125(1) inserted (29.4.2013) by Welfare Reform Act 2012 (c. 5), s. 150(3), Sch. 2 para. 18; S.I. 2013/983, art. 3(1)(b)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in s. 125(1) inserted (8.4.2013 for specified purposes, 10.6.2013 in so far as not already in force) by Welfare Reform Act 2012 (c. 5), s. 150(3), Sch. 9 para. 16; S.I. 2013/358, art. 7(1)(2)(k), Sch. 3; S.I. 2013/1250, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in s. 125(1) inserted (6.4.2016) by Pensions Act 2014 (c. 19), s. 56(4), Sch. 12 para. 16"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Words in s. 125(1) inserted (6.4.2017) by Pensions Act 2014 (c. 19), s. 56(1), Sch. 16 para. 29; S.I. 2017/297, art. 3(2) (with arts. 4, 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F12",
      "text": "Words in s. 125(1) substituted (11.6.1996) by Jobseekers Act 1995 (c. 18), s. 41(2), Sch. 2 para. 60(b); S.I. 1996/1509, art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 125 applied (7.2.1994) by Pension Schemes Act 1993 (c. 48), s. 167(1)(2), 193(2); S.I. 1994/86, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1992/5/section/125",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:36:26.977425+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."
}