PART 2Registration
Registration: After staging date and new PAYE schemes3
1
Where—
a
paragraph (1)(a) of regulation 2 applies, an employer must provide the information specified in paragraphs (2) and (3) of this regulation within the period of F85 months starting from the staging date; or
b
paragraph (1)(b) of regulation 2 applies, an employer must provide the information specified in paragraphs (2) and (3) of this regulation within the period of F85 months starting from the day on which PAYE income is payable in respect of any worker,
in relation to each of its PAYE schemes.
2
The specified information is—
a
the employer's–
i
F1name, address and postcode, and
F2ii
registered companies house number where one exists or, where such a number does not exist—
aa
the employer’s industrial and provident society number;
bb
but if the number mentioned in sub-paragraph (aa) does not exist, the employer’s registered charity number;
cc
but if the number mentioned in sub-paragraph (bb) does not exist, the employer’s VAT registration number, if one exists;
b
i
the name, telephone number, ordinary working address, and
ii
email address, where one exists,
of any person providing that specified information on behalf of the employer;
c
the capacity in which the person providing the information in sub-paragraph (a) works for (or has a relationship to) that employer;
d
where the employer must arrange active membership of an automatic enrolment scheme under section 3(2) of the Act–
F3i
subject to paragraph (iii) the number of jobholders automatically enrolled with effect from—
aa
the employer’s staging date;
bb
where sub-paragraph (aa) does not apply and the employer has not used a deferral date the date the employer’s duties first apply to the employer;
F4 ...
ii
if the employer uses more than one pension scheme under those arrangements, the number of jobholders who became active members of each pension scheme; F5and
iii
on the deferral date—
aa
the deferral date or the last such date where the employer uses more than one; and
bb
the number of jobholders automatically enrolled with effect from that date;
F6e
where an employer is subject to transitional arrangements under section 30 of the Act (transitional period for defined benefits and hybrid schemes) the number of jobholders to whom that section applies;
F7f
the number of workers in an employer’s PAYE scheme who, immediately before whichever is applicable of—
i
the staging date; or
ii
the day on which the employers’ duties first apply to the employer,
were active members of a qualifying scheme or, if the employer uses more than one qualifying scheme to comply with the employers’ duties, each of those schemes;
g
the number of workers in an employer's PAYE scheme in respect of whom sub-paragraphs (d), (e) or (f) of this paragraph do not apply.
3
Where an employer must arrange for a jobholder to become an active member of an automatic enrolment scheme under section 3(2) of the Act, that employer must also provide the following information to the Regulator about any pension scheme used to comply with those duties—
a
where that scheme–
i
is an occupational pension scheme, its name and, unless registrable information has already been provided to the Regulator by the trustees or managers of that scheme, its address, or
ii
is a personal pension scheme, the name and address of the provider of that scheme; and
b
the employer pension scheme reference.
4
All information provided to the Regulator by (or on behalf of) an employer under this regulation must be accompanied by a declaration that the information is, to the best of the employer's knowledge and belief, correct and complete.