Regulation 3 Early automatic enrolment

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F6where, on the date the employer notifies the Regulator in accordance with sub-paragraph (c), the duty in section 3(2) of the Act (automatic enrolment) applies in relation to at least one of that employer’s jobholders, secured the agreement of the F7trustees or managers (or scheme administrator or provider) of F8a pension scheme that that scheme F9is to be used by the employer to comply with those duties from that early automatic enrolment date; and

notified the Regulator accordingly in writing, at any time—

any date in the final column of the table in regulation 4 which is earlier than the staging date corresponding to that employers' description;

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in the case of an employer of 50,000 or more persons by PAYE scheme size or any other description, one of the following dates to be chosen by the employer—

in the case of an employer who has no jobholder to whom the duty in section 3(2) of the Act applies on the date the employer notifies the Regulator in accordance with paragraph (4)(c)(i), any date which is earlier than the staging date corresponding to that employer’s description.