{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-administration-act-1992/section-182C",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-administration-act-1992/section-182C.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1992/5",
  "legislation_title": "Social Security Administration Act 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-administration-act-1992",
  "path": "section/182C",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "182C",
  "heading": "Requirement to apply for national insurance number",
  "text": "(1) Regulations may make provision requiring a person to apply for a national insurance number to be allocated to him.\n(1A) Regulations under subsection (1) above may require the application to be made to the Secretary of State or to the Inland Revenue.\n(2) An application required by regulations under subsection (1) above shall be accompanied by information or evidence enabling such a number to be allocated.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S.182C and cross-heading inserted (1.7.1997) by Social Security Administration (Fraud) Act 1997 (c. 47), s. 25(1), Sch. 1 para. 9; S.I. 1997/1577, art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 182C(1A) 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. 31; S.I. 1999/527, art. 2(b), Sch. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1992/5/section/182C",
    "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."
}