# The Employers’ Duties (Implementation) (Amendment) Regulations 2016, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend regulations 5 and 6 of the Employers’ Duties (Implementation) Regulations 2010 (SI 2010/4) (“the 2010 Regulations”).
The 2010 Regulations make provision for the application of various duties placed on employers by sections 2 to 9 of the Pensions Act 2008. Regulations 5 and 6 prescribe various transitional periods during which those obligations are to be phased in.
By virtue of regulation 2(2), the two transitional periods specified by regulation 5 of the 2010 Regulations will now expire on 5th April 2018 and 5th April 2019 respectively.
Regulation 2(3) of these Regulations amends regulation 6 of the 2010 Regulations, and provides that the transitional period specified in that regulation expires on 30th September 2017.
A full impact assessment of the effect that this instrument will have on the costs of business and the voluntary sector is annexed to the Explanatory Memorandum which is available alongside this instrument on the legislation.gov website.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/719/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/employers-duties-implementation-amendment-regulations-2016/note
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