Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Pt. 1 applied (with modifications) (1.7.2012) by The Automatic Enrolment (Offshore Employment) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/1388), arts. 1(1), 2 (with art. 5)
6—(1) Regulations under section 5(8) must either—
(a)secure that for any jobholder there is no automatic re-enrolment date less than three years after the jobholder's automatic enrolment date, and that there is not more than one automatic re-enrolment date in any period of three years, or
(b)secure that for any employer there is not more than one automatic re-enrolment date in any period of [F12 years and 9 months] .
(2) Subsection (1) does not restrict the provision that regulations may make about the timing of a jobholder's automatic re-enrolment date (“the relevant date”) in the following cases.
F2(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(4) The [F3first case] is where—
(a)F4... the jobholder ceases to be an active member of a qualifying scheme F5...,
(b)that event is not the effect of any action or omission by the jobholder F6..., and
(c)the relevant date is the jobholder's first automatic re-enrolment date after that [F7event] .
(5) The [F8second case] is where—
(a)there is a period beginning at any time after the jobholder's automatic enrolment date during which the requirements of section 1(1)(a) or (c) are not met (so that the person is not a jobholder for that period), and
(b)the relevant date is the jobholder's first automatic re-enrolment date after that period.
F9(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Textual Amendments
F1Words in s. 6(1)(b) substituted (2.6.2012 for specified purposes, 1.4.2015 in so far as not already in operation) by Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2012 (c. 3), ss. 8, 34(1)(3); S.R. 2015/206, art. 2
F2S. 6(3) omitted (2.6.2012 for specified purposes, 30.6.2012 in so far as not already in operation) by virtue of Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2012 (c. 3), ss. 7(4)(a), 34(1)(3); S.R. 2012/265, art. 2(1)(b)
F3Words in s. 6(4) substituted (2.6.2012 for specified purposes, 30.6.2012 in so far as not already in operation) by Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2012 (c. 3), ss. 7(4)(b), 34(1)(3); S.R. 2012/265, art. 2(1)(b)
F4Words in s. 6(4)(a) omitted (2.6.2012 for specified purposes, 30.6.2012 in so far as not already in operation) by virtue of Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2012 (c. 3), ss. 5(5)(a), 34(1)(3); S.R. 2012/265, art. 2(1)(a)
F5Words in s. 6(4)(a) omitted (2.6.2012 for specified purposes, 30.6.2012 in so far as not already in operation) by virtue of Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2012 (c. 3), ss. 5(5)(b), 34(1)(3); S.R. 2012/265, art. 2(1)(a)
F6Words in s. 6(4)(b) omitted (2.6.2012 for specified purposes, 30.6.2012 in so far as not already in operation) by virtue of Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2012 (c. 3), ss. 5(5)(c), 34(1)(3); S.R. 2012/265, art. 2(1)(a)
F7Word in s. 6(4)(c) substituted (2.6.2012 for specified purposes, 30.6.2012 in so far as not already in operation) by Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2012 (c. 3), ss. 5(5)(d), 34(1)(3); S.R. 2012/265, art. 2(1)(a)
F8Words in s. 6(5) substituted (2.6.2012 for specified purposes, 30.6.2012 in so far as not already in operation) by Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2012 (c. 3), ss. 7(4)(c), 34(1)(3); S.R. 2012/265, art. 2(1)(b)
F9S. 6(6) omitted (2.6.2012 for specified purposes, 30.6.2012 in so far as not already in operation) by virtue of Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2012 (c. 3), ss. 7(4)(a), 34(1)(3); S.R. 2012/265, art. 2(1)(b)
Commencement Information
I1S. 6 partly in force; s. 6 in force for certain purposes at Royal Assent see s. 118(2)
I2S. 6 in operation at 30.6.2012 in so far as not already in operation by S.R. 2012/266, art. 2, Sch. Pt. 1