{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-2008/section-36",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-2008/section-36.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2008/30",
  "legislation_title": "Pensions Act 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-2008",
  "path": "section/36",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "36",
  "heading": "Third party compliance notices",
  "text": "(1) The Regulator may issue a third party compliance notice if it is of the opinion that—\n(a) a person has contravened one or more of the employer duty provisions,\n(b) the contravention is or was, wholly or partly, a result of a failure of another person (the “third party”) to do any thing, and\n(c) that failure is not itself a contravention of any of the employer duty provisions.\n(2) A third party compliance notice is a notice directing the third party to take, or refrain from taking, the steps specified in the notice in order to remedy or prevent a recurrence of the failure.\n(3) A third party notice may, in particular—\n(a) state the period within which any step must be taken or must cease to be taken;\n(b) require the third party to inform the Regulator, within a specified period, how the third party has complied or is complying with the notice;\n(c) state that, if the third party fails to comply with the requirements of the notice, the Regulator may issue a fixed penalty notice under section 40.\n(4) A third party notice may give the third party a choice between different ways of remedying or preventing the recurrence of the third party's failure.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/30/section/36",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:11:33.323762+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}