Regulation 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

These Regulations may be cited as the Employers' Duties (Implementation) Regulations 2010 and shall come into force on F11st June 2012, immediately after the time when the amendments to these Regulations made by the Automatic Enrolment (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2012 come into force.

In these Regulations—

• “the Act” means the Pensions Act 2008;

• F2“deferral date” means the date specified in a notice given by an employer under regulation 4B(1) or (2);

• “employerF3, except in regulations 4B and 4C,” has the meaning given by–

  1. (a)

     section 88(7) of the Act; and

  2. (b)

     regulation 2(2);

• “the employers' duties” means sections 2 to 9 of the Act;

• “HMRC” means Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs;

• “PAYE income” has the same meaning as in section 683 of the Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003 M1;

• “PAYE reference number” means a number issued by HMRC to a corresponding PAYE scheme, enabling an employer to pay over amounts deducted to HMRC;

• “PAYE scheme” means the HMRC record F4applicable to an employer who–

  1. (a)

     employs; or

  2. (b)

     intends to employ,

  a worker or workers to whom PAYE income is payable;

• “scheme administrator” has the same meaning as in section 270 of the Finance Act 2004 M2; and

• F5 “staging date” means the date prescribed in accordance with regulation 2(1) on which the employers’ duties apply to employers.