Department of Employment and Social Development Act (S.C. 2005, c. 34)

Marginal note:Social Insurance Register

• 28.2 (1) The Commission may maintain a Social Insurance Register containing

  • (a) the names of persons registered in the registry referred to in section 28.1;

  • (b) the names of persons to whom a Social Insurance Number has been assigned under the Canada Pension Plan; and

  • (c) the names of persons for whom an application has been made to the Commission for a Social Insurance Number.

• Marginal note:Additional information

  (2) The Social Insurance Register may, subject to any regulations that the Governor in Council may make in that regard, contain any other information in addition to the names and Social Insurance Numbers of persons that is necessary to accurately identify all persons who are registered.

• Marginal note:Issuing number and card

  (3) When a Social Insurance Number is assigned to a person by the Commission in the course of maintaining the registers mentioned in this section and section 28.1, the Commission may issue a Social Insurance Number card to that person and that number is the person’s Social Insurance Number for all purposes for which a Social Insurance Number is required.

• Marginal note:Regulations

  (4) The Commission may, with the approval of the Governor in Council, make regulations respecting

  • (a) the registration of persons under this section and section 28.1, including applications for that registration;

  • (b) the assignment and use of Social Insurance Numbers;

  • (c) the issuance, custody, production and use of Social Insurance Number cards;

  • (d) periods of validity, and the extension of those periods, of Social Insurance Numbers and Social Insurance Number cards; and

  • (e) the replacement of Social Insurance Number cards that have been lost, destroyed or defaced.

• Marginal note:Availability of information — social insurance registers

  (5) The Commission may make available any information contained in the registers maintained under this section and section 28.1 that the Commission considers necessary for the accurate identification of persons and for the effective use by those persons of Social Insurance Numbers to any persons that the Commission thinks appropriate to accomplish that purpose.

• Marginal note:Secondary release of information

  (6) Information obtained under subsection (5) shall not be made available to a person or body unless the Commission considers it advisable, the information is made available for the same purpose and it is subject to conditions agreed on by the Commission and the person who obtained the information.

• Marginal note:Agreements still in force

  (7) Subsection (6) does not apply to information made available in accordance with an agreement entered into by the Commission before the coming into force of this section.

• Marginal note:New Social Insurance Number

  (8) A person who has been assigned a Social Insurance Number may subsequently be assigned a new Social Insurance Number, in accordance with and subject to any regulations that the Commission may make, if

  • (a) the number first assigned has been assigned to another person;

  • (b) wrongful use by another person of the number first assigned has created a situation in which the person to whom the number was first assigned is or may be caused embarrassment or hardship; or

  • (c) there are other special or unusual circumstances that would make the issuance of a new number desirable.

• Marginal note:Voiding

  (9) When a new Social Insurance Number is assigned to a person, any number previously assigned to that person becomes void.

• Marginal note:More than one number assigned

  (10) If a person has inadvertently been assigned more than one Social Insurance Number, the Commission shall determine which number is the official number and shall void the others.