The Pensions Dashboards Regulations 2022

Compliance notices

29.—(1) A compliance notice is a notice directing trustees or managers to take, or to refrain from taking, the steps specified in the notice.

(2) The Regulator may issue a compliance notice to the trustees or managers of a relevant occupational pension scheme where the Regulator is of the opinion that they are not complying, or have not complied, with any requirement in Part 3.

(3) The steps mentioned in paragraph (1) may be any steps that the Regulator reasonably requires with a view to remedying the non-compliance with a requirement in Part 3 and, where appropriate, avoiding repetition of it.

(4) A compliance notice may, in particular—

(a) state the period within which any step must be taken or must cease to be taken;

(b) require the trustees or managers to provide to the Regulator, within a specified period, information relating to the non-compliance;

(c) require the trustees or managers to inform the Regulator, within a specified period, how the trustees or managers have complied with, or are complying with, the compliance notice;

(d) give the trustees or managers a choice between different steps that may be taken to ensure that the non-compliance is remedied and, where appropriate, is not repeated;

(e) cover more than one contravention, with separate steps specified in respect of each contravention, to the extent that the Regulator considers this to be appropriate.

(5) A direction in a compliance notice may be expressed to be conditional on compliance by a third party, with a specified direction contained in a third party compliance notice under regulation 30.

(6) A compliance notice must state—

(a) which provision of Part 3 was not, or is not, being complied with in the opinion of the Regulator;

(b) the evidence on which that opinion is based;

(c) that if the Regulator is of the opinion that trustees or managers have failed to comply with the compliance notice, then the Regulator may issue a penalty notice under regulation 31.