Pensions Act 2008 (c. 30)

Part 1 U.K. Pension scheme membership for jobholders

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 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)

Chapter 1 E+W+S Employers' duties

Employers' duties E+W+S

6 Timing of automatic re-enrolment E+W+S

(1) Regulations under section 5(8) must either—

(a) secure that for any jobholder there is no automatic re-enrolment date less than three years after the jobholder's automatic enrolment date, and that there is not more than one automatic re-enrolment date in any period of three years, or

F1 (b) secure that for any employer there is not more than one automatic re-enrolment date in any period of [F2 2 years and 9 months].

(2) Subsection (1) does not restrict the provision that regulations may make about the timing of a jobholder's automatic re-enrolment date (“the relevant date”) in the following cases.

(3) F3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(4) The [F4 first case] is where—

(a) F5 . . . the jobholder ceases to be an active member of a qualifying scheme F6 . . . ,

(b) that event is not the effect of any action or omission by the jobholder F7 . . . , and

(c) the relevant date is the jobholder's first automatic re-enrolment date after that [F8 event].

(5) The [F9 second case] is where—

(a) there is a period beginning at any time after the jobholder's automatic enrolment date during which the requirements of section 1(1)(a) or (c) are not met (so that the person is not a jobholder for that period), and

(b) the relevant date is the jobholder's first automatic re-enrolment date after that period.

(6) F3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in s. 6(1)(b) substituted (3.11.2011 for specified purposes, 1.4.2015 in so far as not already in force) by Pensions Act 2011 (c. 19), ss. 7, 38(1); S.I. 2015/676, art. 2

F2 Words in s. 6(1)(b) substituted (3.11.2011 for specified purposes otherwise prosp.) by Pensions Act 2011 (c. 19), ss. 7, 38(1)(4)

F3 S. 6(3)(6) omitted (3.11.2011 for specified purposes otherwise 30.6.2012) by virtue of Pensions Act 2011 (c. 19), ss. 6(4)(a), 38(1)(4); S.I. 2012/1681, art. 2(1)(b)

F4 Words in s. 6(4) substituted (3.11.2011 for specified purposes otherwise 30.6.2012) by Pensions Act 2011 (c. 19), ss. 6(4)(b), 38(1)(4); S.I. 2012/1681, art. 2(1)(b)

F5 Words in s. 6(4)(a) omitted (3.11.2011 for specified purposes otherwise 30.6.2012) by virtue of Pensions Act 2011 (c. 19), ss. 4(5)(a), 38(1)(4); S.I. 2012/1681, art. 2(1)(a)

F6 Words in s. 6(4)(a) omitted (3.11.2011 for specified purposes otherwise 30.6.2012) by virtue of Pensions Act 2011 (c. 19), ss. 4(5)(b), 38(1)(4); S.I. 2012/1681, art. 2(1)(a)

F7 Words in s. 6(4)(b) omitted (3.11.2011 for specified purposes otherwise 30.6.2012) by virtue of Pensions Act 2011 (c. 19), ss. 4(5)(c), 38(1)(4); S.I. 2012/1681, art. 2(1)(a)

F8 Words in s. 6(4)(c) substituted (3.11.2011 for specified purposes otherwise 30.6.2012) by Pensions Act 2011 (c. 19), ss. 4(5)(d), 38(1)(4); S.I. 2012/1681, art. 2(1)(a)

F9 Words in s. 6(5) substituted (3.11.2011 for specified purposes otherwise 30.6.2012) by Pensions Act 2011 (c. 19), ss. 6(4)(c), 38(1)(4); S.I. 2012/1681, art. 2(1)(b)

Commencement Information

I1 S. 6 wholly in force at 30.6.2012; s. 6 in force for certain purposes at Royal Assent see s. 149(2)(k); s. 6 in force so far as not already in force at 30.6.2012 by S.I. 2012/1682, art. 2(1)(2)(a), Sch. 1