{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/occupational-and-personal-pension-schemes-automatic-enrolment-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2016/regulation-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2016/311",
  "legislation_title": "The Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Automatic Enrolment) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/occupational-and-personal-pension-schemes-automatic-enrolment-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2016",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Employers’ Duties (Registration and Compliance) Regulations 2010",
  "text": "(1) The Employers’ Duties (Registration and Compliance) Regulations 2010 are amended as follows.\n(2) In paragraph (1) of regulation 2 (registration: general)—\n(a) at the beginning of sub-paragraph (a), insert “on or”;\n(b) at the end of sub-paragraph (b), for “or” substitute “and”; and\n(c) for sub-paragraph (c) substitute—\n“(c) on or after an automatic re-enrolment date for that employer.”.\n(3) After paragraph (3) of regulation 2, insert—\n“(4) In this Part, “automatic re-enrolment date” means an automatic re-enrolment date occurring by virtue of section 6(1)(b) of the Act (timing of automatic re-enrolment).”.\n(4) For paragraph (1) of regulation 4 (registration: re-registration) substitute—\n“(1) Where paragraph (1)(c) of regulation 2 applies, an employer must provide the information specified in paragraph (3) of this regulation in relation to each of its PAYE schemes—\n(a) where it is the employer’s first automatic re-enrolment date, within the period of 5 months beginning with the third anniversary of the employer’s staging date; and\n(b) in any other case, within the period of 5 months beginning with the third anniversary of the employer’s previous automatic re-enrolment date,\nand the time at which an employer provides that information is referred to in this regulation as the “point of re-registration”.”.\n(5) Omit paragraph (2) of regulation 4.\n(6) In paragraph (3) of regulation 4—\n(a) omit head (iii) in sub-paragraph (c) and the preceding “and”;\n(b) after sub-paragraph (c) insert—\n“(ca) the automatic re-enrolment date;”; and\n(c) for paragraph (e) substitute—\n“(e) the number of workers in the employer’s PAYE scheme who, immediately before the point of re-registration, were active members of a qualifying scheme or, if the employer uses more than one qualifying scheme to comply with the employers’ duties, the number of workers in each of those schemes;”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2010/5."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Regulation 2 was amended by S.I. 2012/215."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Regulation 4 was amended by S.I. 2012/215 and 2013/2556."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/311/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:26:01.422904+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."
}