The Stakeholder Pension Schemes Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000

Disclosure of information to relevant employees

25.—(1) Where an employee for the first time requests an employer to make or vary (but not cease) deductions of the employee’s contributions to a qualifying scheme from his remuneration, the employer must, within 2 weeks of receiving that request, give notice in writing to the employee containing the information referred to in paragraph (2).

(2) The information to be provided under paragraph (1) is—

(a) the manner in which the employer will accept requests to make, vary or cease such deductions;

(b) advice that, where an employee requests an employer to make or vary deductions of the employee’s contributions to a qualifying scheme from the employee’s remuneration, the employer need not comply with that request within—

(i) 6 months of the date of any previous request to make, vary or cease such deductions, or

(ii) where the employer is agreeable to complying with the request within a lesser period than 6 months of a previous request, that lesser period;

(c) advice that the employee may, at any time, require the employer to cease such deductions immediately, and

(d) advice that, where the employer is required to comply with a request to make, vary or cease such deductions, the request will be complied with as soon as possible but no later than the end of the pay period following that in which the request is made.