{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-administration-northern-ireland-act-1992/section-125",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-administration-northern-ireland-act-1992/section-125.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1992/8",
  "legislation_title": "Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-administration-northern-ireland-act-1992",
  "path": "section/125",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "125",
  "heading": "Furnishing of addresses for maintenance proceedings, etc.",
  "text": "(1) The Department may incur expenses for the purpose of furnishing the address at which a person is recorded by it as residing, where the address is required for the purpose of taking or carrying on legal proceedings to obtain or enforce an order for the making by the person of payments—\n(a) for the maintenance of the person’s spouse, former spouse, civil partner or former civil partner ; or\n(b) for the maintenance or education of any child of the person, or of any child of the person’s spouse, former spouse, civil partner or former civil partner.\n(2) In subsection (1)(b) above “son or daughter” includes an illegitimate son or daughter.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in s. 125(1) substituted (5.12.2005) by The Civil Partnership (Pensions and Benefit Payments) (Consequential, etc. Provisions) Order (Northern Ireland) 2005 (S.R. 2005/434), art. 1(3), Sch. para. 8(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 125(1)(a) substituted (5.12.2005) by The Civil Partnership (Pensions and Benefit Payments) (Consequential, etc. Provisions) Order (Northern Ireland) 2005 (S.R. 2005/434), art. 1(3), Sch. para. 8(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 125(1)(b) substituted (5.12.2005) by The Civil Partnership (Pensions and Benefit Payments) (Consequential, etc. Provisions) Order (Northern Ireland) 2005 (S.R. 2005/434), art. 1(3), Sch. para. 8(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words repealed",
      "affecting": "nisi/2015/2006",
      "affecting_title": "The Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1992/8/section/125",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:36:21.000621+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."
}