Amendment of the Employers' Duties (Registration and Compliance) Regulations4

1

The Employers' Duties (Registration and Compliance) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 M1 are amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).

2

In regulation 2 (registration: general)—

a

in paragraph (1)—

i

at the beginning of sub-paragraph (a) insert “ on or ”;

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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

iii

for sub-paragraph (c) substitute—

c

on or after an automatic re-enrolment date for that employer.

b

after paragraph (3) add—

4

In this Part, “automatic re-enrolment date” means an automatic re-enrolment date occurring by virtue of section 6(1)(b) M2 (timing of automatic enrolment).

3

In regulation 4 (registration: re-registration)—

a

for paragraph (1) substitute—

1

Where regulation 2(1)(c) applies, an employer must provide the information specified in paragraph (3) of this regulation in relation to each of its PAYE schemes—

a

where it is the employer's first automatic re-enrolment date, within the period of 5 months beginning with the third anniversary of the employer's staging date, and

b

in any other case, within the period of 5 months beginning with the third anniversary of the employer's previous automatic re-enrolment date,

and the time at which an employer provides that information is referred to in this regulation as the “point of re-registration”.

b

omit paragraph (2);

c

in paragraph (3)—

i

in sub-paragraph (c) M3 omit head (iii) and the preceding “and”;

ii

after sub-paragraph (c) insert—

ca

the automatic re-enrolment date;

iii

for paragraph (e) substitute—

e

the number of workers in the employer's PAYE scheme who, immediately before the point of re-registration, were active members of a qualifying scheme or, if the employer uses more than one qualifying scheme to comply with the employers' duties, the number of workers in each of those schemes;