ca.sin error

[Marcel Lecker <Marcel.Lecker [at] gov.ab.ca>]

The first digit of a SIN indicates province of registration. Two digits (0, 8) are not attributed to any provinces and are as such invalid. I ran stdnum.ca.sin.is_valid against a list which included SIN’s beginning with 8 and they all passed as ‘true’ (i.e. valid) when they are not.

 

1 = NB, NF, NS, PE

2 = QC

3 = QC

4 = ON

5 = ON

6 = AB, MB, SK, NT, NU

7 = BC, YU

• 8 = Not Used

9 = Immigrants & other temp SIN's

• 0 = Not Used

 

Please see this for a simple explanation:

http://www.straightlineinternational.com/docs/vaildating_canadian_sin.pdf

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