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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employers-duties-implementation-amendment-regulations-2012/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2012/1813",
  "legislation_title": "The Employers’ Duties (Implementation) (Amendment) Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employers-duties-implementation-amendment-regulations-2012",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Employers’ Duties (Implementation) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/4) (“the principal regulations”). Those Regulations were amended by the Automatic Enrolment (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/215).\nIn regulation 2 of these Regulations, paragraph (2) amends the definition of staging date in the principal regulations. Paragraph (3) makes amendments with regard to the staging date in regulation 2. Paragraph (4)(a) inserts paragraph (1A) into regulation 3 of the principal regulations, disapplying regulation 3 where an employer chooses a modified staging date. Paragraph (4)(b) makes a minor corrective amendment to regulation 3(4)(b) of the principal regulations. Paragraph (5) amends the table of staging dates in regulation 4 of the principal regulations. Paragraph (6) modifies the date on which the employers’ duties apply to certain employers who have fewer than 50 workers on 1st April 2012: those employers may choose to delay the date on which the automatic enrolment duties apply. Paragraph (7) further amends the transitional period in regulation 5 of the principal regulations. During this period, the employer is able to phase in the rate at which contributions are payable by paying contributions at a lower rate until the end of the transitional period. Paragraph (8) further amends the transitional period in regulation 6 of the principal regulations during which the employer can delay automatic enrolment for certain jobholders.\nAn assessment of the impact of this legislation on the private sector and civil society organisations has been made. A copy of this impact assessment is available from the libraries of both Houses of Parliament, and is annexed to the Explanatory Memorandum which is available alongside the instrument on www.legislation.gov.uk. Copies may also be obtained from the Better Regulation Unit of the Department for Work and Pensions, Caxton House, Tothill Street, London SW1H 9NA, or from the DWP website: http://www.dwp.gov.uk/publications/impact-assessments.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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