{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-administration-northern-ireland-act-1992/section-158C",
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  "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/158C",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "158C",
  "heading": "Requirement to apply for national insurance number.",
  "text": "(1) Regulations may make provision 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 Department 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": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 158C and preceding cross-heading inserted (1.7.1997) by S.I. 1997/1182 (N.I. 11), art. 19(1), Sch. 1 para. 6; S.R. 1997/316, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 158C(1A) inserted (24.3.1999 for certain purposes, otherwise 1.4.1999) by S.I. 1999/671, arts. 1(2), 3(1), Sch. 1 para. 34 (subject to transitional provisions in Sch. 7); S.R. 1999/149, art. 2(c), Sch. 2 (subject to arts. 3-6 of the said S.R.)"
    }
  ],
  "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      "type": "words repealed",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/158C",
    "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."
}