{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-2008/section-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-2008/section-6.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2008/30",
  "legislation_title": "Pensions Act 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-2008",
  "path": "section/6",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Timing of automatic re-enrolment",
  "text": "(1) Regulations under section 5(8) must either—\n(a) secure that for any jobholder there is no automatic re-enrolment date less than three years after the jobholder's automatic enrolment date, and that there is not more than one automatic re-enrolment date in any period of three years, or\n(b) secure that for any employer there is not more than one automatic re-enrolment date in any period of 2 years and 9 months.\n(2) Subsection (1) does not restrict the provision that regulations may make about the timing of a jobholder's automatic re-enrolment date (“the relevant date”) in the following cases.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) The first case is where—\n(a) . . . the jobholder ceases to be an active member of a qualifying scheme . . . ,\n(b) that event is not the effect of any action or omission by the jobholder . . . , and\n(c) the relevant date is the jobholder's first automatic re-enrolment date after that event.\n(5) The second case is where—\n(a) there is a period beginning at any time after the jobholder's automatic enrolment date during which the requirements of section 1(1)(a) or (c) are not met (so that the person is not a jobholder for that period), and\n(b) the relevant date is the jobholder's first automatic re-enrolment date after that period.\n(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 6(1)(b) substituted (3.11.2011 for specified purposes, 1.4.2015 in so far as not already in force) by Pensions Act 2011 (c. 19), ss. 7, 38(1); S.I. 2015/676, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 6(1)(b) substituted (3.11.2011 for specified purposes otherwise prosp.) by Pensions Act 2011 (c. 19), ss. 7, 38(1)(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 6(3)(6) omitted (3.11.2011 for specified purposes otherwise 30.6.2012) by virtue of Pensions Act 2011 (c. 19), ss. 6(4)(a), 38(1)(4); S.I. 2012/1681, art. 2(1)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 6(4) substituted (3.11.2011 for specified purposes otherwise 30.6.2012) by Pensions Act 2011 (c. 19), ss. 6(4)(b), 38(1)(4); S.I. 2012/1681, art. 2(1)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 6(4)(a) omitted (3.11.2011 for specified purposes otherwise 30.6.2012) by virtue of Pensions Act 2011 (c. 19), ss. 4(5)(a), 38(1)(4); S.I. 2012/1681, art. 2(1)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 6(4)(a) omitted (3.11.2011 for specified purposes otherwise 30.6.2012) by virtue of Pensions Act 2011 (c. 19), ss. 4(5)(b), 38(1)(4); S.I. 2012/1681, art. 2(1)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in s. 6(4)(b) omitted (3.11.2011 for specified purposes otherwise 30.6.2012) by virtue of Pensions Act 2011 (c. 19), ss. 4(5)(c), 38(1)(4); S.I. 2012/1681, art. 2(1)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in s. 6(4)(c) substituted (3.11.2011 for specified purposes otherwise 30.6.2012) by Pensions Act 2011 (c. 19), ss. 4(5)(d), 38(1)(4); S.I. 2012/1681, art. 2(1)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in s. 6(5) substituted (3.11.2011 for specified purposes otherwise 30.6.2012) by Pensions Act 2011 (c. 19), ss. 6(4)(c), 38(1)(4); S.I. 2012/1681, art. 2(1)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 6 wholly in force at 30.6.2012; s. 6 in force for certain purposes at Royal Assent see s. 149(2)(k); s. 6 in force so far as not already in force at 30.6.2012 by S.I. 2012/1682, art. 2(1)(2)(a), Sch. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/30/section/6",
    "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."
  }
}