The Employers’ Duties (Implementation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010

Staging of the employers’ duties

This section has no associated Explanatory Memorandum

4.—(1) The Table in this regulation sets out the application of the employers’ duties.

(2) Where a date prescribed in the second column of the Table falls on a day which is not a working day, that date is to be treated as the next working day (and for the purposes of this paragraph “working day” means a day which is not a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday).

Table

Employer (by PAYE scheme size or other description)Date before which notification to automatically enrol early must be sentStaging date
120,000 or more1st September 20121st October 2012
50,000-119,9991st October 20121st November 2012
30,000-49,9991st December 20121st January 2013
20,000-29,9991st January 20131st February 2013
10,000-19,9991st February 20131st March 2013
6,000-9,9991st March 20131st April 2013
4,100-5,9991st April 20131st May 2013
4,000-4,0991st May 20131st June 2013
3,000-3,9991st June 20131st July 2013
2,000-2,9991st July 20131st August 2013
1,250-1,9991st August 20131st September 2013
800-1,2491st September 20131st October 2013
500-7991st October 20131st November 2013
350-4991st December 20131st January 2014
250-3491st January 20141st February 2014
Less than 50 with the last 2 characters in their PAYE reference numbers 92, A1-A9, AA-AZ, B1-B9, BA-BY, M1-M9, MA-MZ, Z1-Z9 or ZA-ZZ1st February 20141st March 2014
240-2491st March 20141st April 2014
150-2391st April 20141st May 2014
90-1491st May 20141st June 2014
50-891st June 20141st July 2014
Less than 50 with the last 2 characters in their PAYE reference numbers BZ1st July 20141st August 2014
Less than 50 with the last 2 characters in their PAYE reference numbers 00-011st August 20141st September 2014
Less than 50 with the last 2 characters in their PAYE reference numbers 02-041st September 20141st October 2014
Less than 50 with the last 2 characters in their PAYE reference numbers 05-07, 0A-0Z, C1-C9, CA-CZ, D1-D9 or DA-DZ1st October 20141st November 2014
Less than 50 with the last 2 characters in their PAYE reference numbers 08-11, 1A-1Z, E1-E9 or EA-EZ1st December 20141st January 2015
Less than 50 with the last 2 characters in their PAYE reference numbers 12-15, 2A-2Z, F1-F9, FA-FZ, G1-G9 or GA-GZ1st January 20151st February 2015
Less than 50 with the last 2 characters in their PAYE reference numbers 16-20, 3A-3Z, H1-H9 or HA-HZ1st February 20151st March 2015
Less than 50 with the last 2 characters in their PAYE reference numbers I1-I9, IA-IZ1st March 20151st April 2015
Less than 50 with the last 2 characters in their PAYE reference numbers 21-25, 4A-4Z, J1-J9 or JA-JZ1st April 20151st May 2015
Less than 50 with the last 2 characters in their PAYE reference numbers 26-31, 5A-5Z, K1-K9 or KA-KZ1st May 20151st June 2015
Less than 50 with the last 2 characters in their PAYE reference numbers 32-38, 6A-6Z, L1-L9 or LA-LZ1st June 20151st July 2015
Less than 50 with the last 2 characters in their PAYE reference numbers N1-N9 or NA-NZ1st July 20151st August 2015
Less than 50 with the last 2 characters in their PAYE reference numbers 39-47, 7A-7Z, O1-O9, OA-OZ, P1-P9 or PA-PZ1st August 20151st September 2015
Less than 50 with the last 2 characters in their PAYE reference numbers 48-57, 8A-8Z, Q1-Q9, QA-QZ, R1-R9, RA-RZ, S1-S9, SA-SZ, T1-T9 or TA-TZ1st September 20151st October 2015
Less than 50 with the last 2 characters in their PAYE reference numbers 58-69, 9A-9Z, U1-U9, UA-UZ, V1-V9, VA-VZ, W1-W9, WA-WZ1st October 20151st November 2015
Less than 50 with the last 2 characters in their PAYE reference numbers 70-83, X1-X9, XA-XZ, Y1-Y9 or YA-YZ1st December 20151st January 2016
Less than 50 with the last 2 characters in their PAYE reference numbers 84-91 or 93-991st January 20161st February 2016
(a) Less than 50 unless otherwise described or (b) no PAYE scheme1st January 20161st February 2016
New employer (PAYE income first payable between 1st April 2012 and 31st March 2013)1st February 20161st March 2016
New employer (PAYE income first payable between 1st April 2013 and 31st December 2013)1st April 20161st May 2016
New employer (PAYE income first payable between 1st January 2014 and 30th September 2014)1st May 20161st June 2016
New employer (PAYE income first payable between 1st October 2014 and 30th June 2015)1st July 20161st August 2016
New employer (PAYE income first payable between 1st July 2015 and 31st March 2016)1st September 2016