The Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Automatic Enrolment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010

PART 3 N.I. Automatic re-enrolment

Automatic re-enrolment dates N.I.

12.—(1) Subject to paragraphs [F1 (3) and (4)], the automatic re-enrolment date for the purposes of section 5—

(a) is the date chosen at the discretion of the employer, within a period [F2 beginning 3 months before, and ending at the end of the period of 3 months beginning with,] the third anniversary of the staging date, and

(b) thereafter, is the date chosen at the discretion of the employer, within a period [F2 beginning 3 months before, and ending at the end of the period of 3 months beginning with,] the third anniversary of the date chosen for the previous automatic re-enrolment date.

F3 (2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(3) In a case under section 6(4), the automatic re-enrolment date for the purposes of section 5 is the day after the day on [F4 which the jobholder ceases to be an active member of the scheme.]

(4) In a case under section 6(5), the automatic re-enrolment date for the purposes of section 5 is the first day on which all the requirements of section 1(1) (jobholders) are met (so that the person is a jobholder from that date).

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in reg. 12(1) substituted (1.7.2012) by The Automatic Enrolment (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012 (S.R. 2012/232), regs. 1(1)(c), 2(7)(a)(i)

F2 Words in reg. 12(1)(a)(b) substituted (1.7.2012) by The Automatic Enrolment (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012 (S.R. 2012/232), regs. 1(1)(c), 2(7)(a)(ii)

F3 Reg. 12(2) omitted (1.7.2012) by virtue of The Automatic Enrolment (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012 (S.R. 2012/232), regs. 1(1)(c), 2(7)(b)

F4 Words in reg. 12(3) substituted (1.7.2012) by The Automatic Enrolment (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012 (S.R. 2012/232), regs. 1(1)(c), 2(7)(c)

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 12 in operation at 1.7.2012, see reg. 1(1)

Arrangements to achieve active membership N.I.

13.—(1) Except where the jobholder becomes an active member of an automatic enrolment scheme under paragraph (2), the arrangements in regulations 6, 7 and 8 are the arrangements prescribed to achieve active membership for the purposes of section 5, but with the following modifications—

(a) in regulation 6 for all references to “section 3” substitute “section 5”;

(b) in regulations 6 and 7 for all references to “section 3(2)” substitute “section 5(2)”, and

(c) in regulations 6, 7 and 8 for all references to “the automatic enrolment date” substitute “the automatic re-enrolment date”.

(2) Subject to paragraph (3), where before the jobholder’s automatic re-enrolment date, the jobholder is a member of a personal pension scheme, or in a case under section 6(5) (timing of automatic re-enrolment) a member of a personal pension scheme or an occupational pension scheme, the employer may meet the obligation in section 5(2) by—

(a) before the end of a period of one month beginning with the automatic re-enrolment date, entering into arrangements with the provider or the trustees or managers of the scheme of which the jobholder is a member so that—

(i) the scheme is an automatic enrolment scheme, and

(ii) the jobholder is an active member of that scheme, and

(b) satisfying the requirements of regulation 7, as if for all references in regulation 7 to “section 3(2)” there were substituted “section 5(2)” and for all references to “the automatic enrolment date” there were substituted “the automatic re-enrolment date”.

(3) Paragraph (2)(b) does not apply in a case under section 6(5).

Commencement Information

I2 Reg. 13 in operation at 1.7.2012, see reg. 1(1)

[F5 Jobholders excluded from automatic re-enrolment N.I.

14.— (1) Section 5(2) (automatic re-enrolment) does not apply in the cases to which paragraphs (2) and (3) apply.

(2) This paragraph applies where, in relation to re-enrolment in a case under section 5(1), within the period of 12 months before the automatic re-enrolment date referred to in regulation 12(1)—

(a) the jobholder ceased to be an active member of a qualifying scheme because of an action or omission by the jobholder or by the employer at the jobholder’s request, or

(b) the jobholder gave notice under section 8 (jobholder’s right to opt out).

(3) This paragraph applies where, in relation to re-enrolment in a case under section 5(1B), the jobholder has ceased to be an active member of the qualifying scheme in question because of any action or omission by the employer and the action or omission was at the jobholder’s request.]

Textual Amendments

F5 Reg. 14 substituted (1.7.2012) by The Automatic Enrolment (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012 (S.R. 2012/232), regs. 1(1)(c), 2(8)

Opting out N.I.

15.  The arrangements in regulations 9 and 10 are the arrangements for the purposes of section 8 (jobholder’s right to opt out) in relation to a jobholder who has become an active member of an automatic enrolment scheme under section 5 (automatic re-enrolment), but with the modification that in regulation 9(1) for “section 3(2)” substitute “section 5(2)”.

Commencement Information

I3 Reg. 15 in operation at 1.7.2012, see reg. 1(1)

Refunds N.I.

16.  The arrangements in regulation 11 apply for the purposes of section 8 (jobholder’s right to opt out) in relation to a jobholder who has become an active member of an automatic enrolment scheme under section 5.

Commencement Information

I4 Reg. 16 in operation at 1.7.2012, see reg. 1(1)