{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employers-duties-registration-and-compliance-regulations-2010/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employers-duties-registration-and-compliance-regulations-2010/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2010/5",
  "legislation_title": "The Employers' Duties (Registration and Compliance) Regulations 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employers-duties-registration-and-compliance-regulations-2010",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Period of preservation of records",
  "text": "(1) Except where paragraph (2) applies, a record listed in regulations 6 and 7 must be preserved for a period of 6 years, starting on the day on which the record must first be kept.\n(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply to any record which is kept under paragraph (1)(i) of regulation 6 or under paragraph (1)(c) of regulation 7, in which case the record must be preserved for 4 years, starting on the day on which the record must first be kept.\n(3) Where a certificate issued in respect of a jobholder under section 7(1) of the Pension Schemes Act 1993 was required to be kept under regulation 6(1)(c) (as it had effect before 6th April 2016), that certificate must be preserved until 5th April 2022.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 8(3) inserted (6.4.2016) by The Pensions Act 2014 (Abolition of Contracting-out for Salary Related Pension Schemes) (Consequential Amendments and Savings) Order 2016 (S.I. 2016/200), arts. 1(2), 27(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/5/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:56:30.102097+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}