Regulation 20 Automatic enrolmentI1

England and Wales

(1)

Where a person (P) who is in pensionable service^f1 under the scheme moves from one scheme employer to another but remains in scheme employment, P continues in pensionable service under the scheme.

(2)

A person (P) who is not in pensionable service under the scheme immediately before P’s first eligible day of service in a scheme employment begins pensionable service under this scheme on P’s first eligible day of service in that employment unless—

(a)

regulation 24 (opting out before the end of the first three months) applies; or

(b)

P is a transition member with continuity of service and paragraph (3) applies.

(3)

This paragraph applies if—

(a)

P’s first eligible day of service in the scheme employment is the day after P’s closing date; and

(b)

on P’s closing date—

(i)

P was in service in the same employment, and

(ii)

P had opted out of the 1992 Scheme or the NFPS, as the case may be, in relation to that service.

Annotations

Commencement

I1: Reg. 20 in force at 1.4.2015, see reg. 1(2)

Footnotes

f1: See section 37 of the 2013 Act for the meaning of “pensionable service”.