Pensions Act 2008 (c. 30)

Part 1 U.K. Pension scheme membership for jobholders

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Pt. 1 applied (with modifications) (temp. 1.7.2012 to 30.6.2020) by The Automatic Enrolment (Offshore Employment) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/1388), art. 2 (with saving in art. 5)

Chapter 4 E+W+S Supplementary provision about compliance and information-sharing

Records and information E+W+S

64 Penalty for disclosure E+W+S

(1) In section 82(5)(a) of the Pensions Act 2004 (penalty for disclosure of restricted information, on summary conviction), at the end insert “ , or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months, or both ”.

(2) After subsection (5) insert—

“(6) In relation to an offence under subsection (5) committed before the commencement of section 282 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (short sentences) the reference in subsection (5)(a) to 12 months has effect as if it were a reference to six months.

(7) Subsection (6) does not extend to Scotland.”