# Pensions Act 2008, Section 6: Timing of automatic re-enrolment

Extent: E+W+S

(1) Regulations under section 5(8) must either—
(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
(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.
(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.
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(4) The first case is where—
(a) . . . the jobholder ceases to be an active member of a qualifying scheme . . . ,
(b) that event is not the effect of any action or omission by the jobholder . . . , and
(c) the relevant date is the jobholder's first automatic re-enrolment date after that event.
(5) The second case is where—
(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
(b) the relevant date is the jobholder's first automatic re-enrolment date after that period.
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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/30/section/6 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-2008/section-6
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