C2Part 1Pension scheme membership for jobholders
Chapter 1Employers' duties
F1Qualifying earnings and earnings trigger
Cross-heading preceding s. 13 substituted (3.11.2011 for specified purposes otherwise 3.1.2012) by Pensions Act 2011 (c. 19), ss. 8(2), 38(1)(4); S.I. 2011/3034, art. 3(a)
I1C913Qualifying earnings
1
A person's qualifying earnings in a pay reference period of 12 months are the part (if any) of the gross earnings payable to that person in that period that is—
a
more than F6£6,240, and
b
not more than F4£50,000.
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In the case of a pay reference period of less or more than 12 months, subsection (1) applies as if the amounts in paragraphs (a) and (b) were proportionately less or more.
3
In this section, “earnings”, in relation to a person, means sums of any of the following descriptions that are payable to the person in connection with the person's employment—
a
salary, wages, commission, bonuses and overtime;
b
statutory sick pay under Part 11 of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (c. 4);
c
statutory maternity pay under Part 12 of that Act;
d
F3statutory paternity pay under Part 12ZA of that Act;
e
statutory adoption pay under Part 12ZB of that Act;
F2ea
statutory shared parental pay under Part 12ZC of that Act;
F5eb
statutory parental bereavement pay under Part 12ZD of that Act;
f
sums prescribed for the purposes of this section.
Pt. 1 applied (with modifications) (temp. 1.7.2012 to 30.6.2020) by The Automatic Enrolment (Offshore Employment) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/1388), art. 2 (with saving in art. 5)