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Version status: In force | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 29 June 2011 - onwards

14. Allocation of personal public service number in certain circumstances.

Section 262 of the Principal Act is amended -

(a) in subsection (3) (amended by section 8 of the Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2010), by substituting the following paragraphs for paragraph (b):

"(b) Where a person who has a transaction with a specified body is under the age of 18 years, the following information shall be given to the Minister in relation to that person by that person's parent or guardian -

(i) the information specified in paragraph (a), and

(ii) the public service identity of -

(I) his or her mother and father, or

(II) his or her guardian or guardians.

(c) Where a person who has a transaction with a specified body is certified by a registered medical practitioner to be a person who is or is likely soon to become unable for the time being to manage his or her own financial affairs, the following information shall be given to the Minister by any person appointed to act on behalf of that person in accordance with regulations made under section 244(1) (b) -

(i) the information specified in paragraph (a) in relation to the person so certified, and

(ii) the public service identity of the person so appointed to act on behalf of that person.",

and