Regulation 25 Disclosure of information to relevant employeesI1

Northern Ireland Not yet in force

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

reg. 25(1) words substituted by Stakeholder Pension Schemes 2001 reg. 17(2)
reg. 25(2)(c) word omitted by Stakeholder Pension Schemes 2001 reg. 17(3)(a)(b)
reg. 25(2)(d) word substituted by Stakeholder Pension Schemes 2001 reg. 17(3)(c)(i)
reg. 25(2)(d) words substituted by Stakeholder Pension Schemes 2001 reg. 17(3)(c)(ii)
reg. 25(2)(e) and word inserted by Stakeholder Pension Schemes 2001 reg. 17(3)(d)
reg. 25 coming into force by Stakeholder Pension Schemes 2000 reg. 1(2)
reg. 12(5(a)(i) words substituted by Stakeholder Pension Schemes 2005 reg. 2(7)
reg. 25(2)(e)(i) words substituted by Taxation of Pension Schemes (Consequential Amendments of Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes Legislation) 2006 art. 40(7)

(1)

Where an employee for the first time requests an employer to make or vary (but not cease) deductions of the employee’s contributions to a qualifying scheme from his remuneration, the employer must, within 2 weeks of receiving that request, give notice in writing to the employee containing the information referred to in paragraph (2).

(2)

The information to be provided under paragraph (1) is—

(a)

the manner in which the employer will accept requests to make, vary or cease such deductions;

(b)

advice that, where an employee requests an employer to make or vary deductions of the employee’s contributions to a qualifying scheme from the employee’s remuneration, the employer need not comply with that request within—

(i)

6 months of the date of any previous request to make, vary or cease such deductions, or

(ii)

where the employer is agreeable to complying with the request within a lesser period than 6 months of a previous request, that lesser period;

(c)

advice that the employee may, at any time, require the employer to cease such deductions immediately, and

(d)

advice that, where the employer is required to comply with a request to make, vary or cease such deductions, the request will be complied with as soon as possible but no later than the end of the pay period following that in which the request is made.

Annotations

Commencement

I1: Reg. 25 in operation at 8.10.2001, see reg. 1(2)