Farm Income Protection Act

Marginal note:Social Insurance Number

• 10 (1) Where so required by an agreement, every producer who enrols, directly or indirectly, as part of a body corporate or other entity, in a program under the agreement shall

  • (a) where a Social Insurance Number has not been assigned to the producer, submit an application, in such form as may be prescribed, for the assignment to the producer of a Social Insurance Number; and

  • (b) submit notification of the Social Insurance Number assigned to that producer, at the time of enrolling in the program or as soon as possible after the Number is assigned, as the case may be.

• Marginal note:Assignment of number and card

  (2) The Minister shall, on application by a producer to whom a Social Insurance Number has not been assigned, cause a Social Insurance Number to be assigned and a Social Insurance Number card to be issued to the producer.

• Marginal note:Change of name

  (3) Where, at any time, a producer participating directly or indirectly as part of a body corporate or other entity in a program under an agreement and to whom a Social Insurance Number has been assigned changes the name of that producer, by reason of marriage or otherwise, that producer shall apply to the Minister within sixty days after the day on which the change of name becomes effective for the issue to that producer of a new Social Insurance Number card in the new name, unless the producer has already made such an application to another authority empowered to receive that application.