Regulation 24 Payroll deduction of contributions

F1Subject to paragraphs (2) and (2A), where an employee requests an employer to F2... vary (but not cease) deductions of the employee’s contributions to a qualifying scheme from his remuneration (“the request"), the employer must comply with the request as soon as possible, but no later than F3the end of—

Where an employee makes the request within 6 months of requesting the same employer to F4vary deductions of the employee’s contributions to a qualifying scheme from the employee’s remuneration, the employer need not comply with the request but, where he does not do so, he must give notice to the employee in writing—

Where the trustees or manager of the scheme in relation to which the request is made inform the employer that they will refuse, in accordance with regulation 17, to accept payment—

Where the employer, on a ground mentioned in paragraph (2A), does not comply with the request, he must give notice to the employee in writing—

Where an employee requests an employer to cease to make deductions from the employee’s remuneration on account of contributions to a qualifying scheme, the employer must—

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Where an employer is notified that a stakeholder pension scheme that has been designated by him for the purposes of section 3(2) of the Act has commenced winding-up, the employer must immediately cease making deductions from the employee’s remuneration on account of contributions to that scheme and notify the employee in writing as soon as is practicable that those deductions have ceased.

Where an employer has withdrawn their designation of a stakeholder pension scheme that has been designated by him for the purposes of section 3(2) of the Act for reasons beyond their control, the employer must immediately cease deducting contributions from the employee’s remuneration and notify the employee in writing as soon as is practicable that designation of that scheme has been withdrawn and deduction of contributions has ceased.

Where an employer—

the employer need not comply with the requirement in section 3(5) of the Act.

Any notice to be given under any of paragraphs F20(2) and (2B) must be given prior to the end of—

In this regulation F21... references, in relation to an employer, to an employee are references to a relevant employee of that employer where that relevant employee is a member of a qualifying scheme.