{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/occupational-and-personal-pension-schemes-automatic-enrolment-regulations-2010/regulation-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/occupational-and-personal-pension-schemes-automatic-enrolment-regulations-2010/regulation-13.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2010/772",
  "legislation_title": "The Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Automatic Enrolment) Regulations 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/occupational-and-personal-pension-schemes-automatic-enrolment-regulations-2010",
  "path": "regulation/13",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Arrangements to achieve active membership",
  "text": "(1) Except where the jobholder becomes an active member of an automatic enrolment scheme under paragraph (2), the arrangements in regulations 6, 7 and 8 are the arrangements prescribed to achieve active membership for the purposes of section 5 of the Act, but with the following modifications—\n(a) in regulation 6 for all references to “section 3” substitute “ ;section 5 ”;\n(b) in regulations 6, 7 and 8 for all references to “section 3(2)” substitute “ ;section 5(2) ”; and\n(c) in regulations 6, 7 and 8 for all references to “the automatic enrolment date” substitute “ ;the automatic re-enrolment date ”.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (3), where before the jobholder's automatic re-enrolment date, the jobholder is a member of a personal pension scheme, or in a case under section 6(5) of the Act a member of a personal pension scheme or an occupational pension scheme, the employer may meet the obligation in section 5(2) of the Act by—\n(a) before the end of a period of six weeks beginning with the automatic re-enrolment date, entering into arrangements with the provider or the trustees or managers of the scheme of which the jobholder is a member so that—\n(i) the scheme is an automatic enrolment scheme; and\n(ii) the jobholder is an active member of that scheme; and\n(b) satisfying the requirements of regulation 7, as if for all references in regulation 7 to “section 3(2)” there was substituted “ ;section 5(2) ” and for all references to “the automatic enrolment date” there was substituted “ ;the automatic re-enrolment date ”.\n(3) Paragraph (2)(b) does not apply in a case under section 6(5) of the Act.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 13(2)(a) substituted (1.4.2014) by The Automatic Enrolment (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/2556), regs. 1(2), 5(4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/772/regulation/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:47:56.546758+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."
}