Canada Pension Plan (R.S.C., 1985, c. C-8)

Act current to 2013-05-26 and last amended on 2013-04-01. Previous Versions

Marginal note:Agreement respecting assignment of Social Insurance Numbers

  • 100. (1) The Minister may, on behalf of the Government of Canada, enter into an agreement with the government of a province providing a comprehensive pension plan under which the Minister may cause Social Insurance Numbers to be assigned to persons to whom Social Insurance Numbers have not earlier been assigned, on the basis of applications made by those persons to the appropriate authority in that province.

  • Marginal note:Numbers deemed to have been assigned under Act

    (2) Any Social Insurance Numbers caused to be assigned by the Minister under any agreement entered into under subsection (1) shall be deemed for all purposes of this Act to have been assigned under this Act.

  • R.S., c. C-5, s. 103.
Marginal note:Regulations

  • 101. (1) The Governor in Council may make regulations

    • (a) requiring employers to distribute to their employees applications and other material relating to applications for Social Insurance Numbers;

    • (b) prescribing districts for purposes of assigning Social Insurance Numbers, in which persons who reside therein may file their applications for Social Insurance Numbers and, having regard to the public convenience, the place or places within each district at which those persons may apply;

    • (c) prescribing the conditions on which and manner in which Social Insurance Number Cards that have been lost or destroyed may be replaced;

    • (d) authorizing the Minister and the Minister of National Revenue to cause a Social Insurance Number to be assigned and a Social Insurance Number Card to be issued to any individual who has not earlier been assigned a Social Insurance Number;

    • (d.1) prescribing or defining anything that, by this Part, is to be prescribed or defined;

    • (d.2) and (d.3) [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 233]

    • (e) generally for carrying out the purposes and provisions of this Part.

  • (2) [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 233]

  • R.S., 1985, c. C-8, s. 101;
  • R.S., 1985, c. 30 (2nd Supp.), s. 52;
  • 1995, c. 33, s. 42;
  • 2007, c. 11, s. 10;
  • 2012, c. 19, s. 233.
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Marginal note:Offence and punishment

  • 102. (1) Every person who, in his application for a Social Insurance Number, knowingly furnishes any false or misleading information is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction.

  • Marginal note:Idem

    (2) Every person who has been assigned a Social Insurance Number and who knowingly makes application again to be assigned a Social Insurance Number, whether giving the same or different information in that application as in his previous application, and whether or not he is assigned a Social Insurance Number again, is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction.

  • Marginal note:Idem

    (3) Every employer who fails to comply with subsection 98(5) or any regulation made under paragraph 101(1)(a) is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars.

  • R.S., c. C-5, s. 105.