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The Pensions Act 2011 (Commencement No. 6) Order 2015

S.I. 2015/676 · Made 12 March 2015

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Pensions

Made 12th March 2015

The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions makes the following Order in exercise of the power conferred by section 38(4) of the Pensions Act 2011f1.

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

2011 c. 19.

Contents

  1. 1Citation
  2. 2Commencement of provision
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation

This Order may be cited as the Pensions Act 2011 (Commencement No. 6) Order 2015.

2Commencement of provision

Section 7 of the Pensions Act 2011 (timing of automatic re-enrolment) comes into force, in so far as it is not already in force, on 1st April 2015.

Signature

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

Steve Webb

Minister of State

Department for Work and Pensions

12th March 2015

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order brings into force section 7 of the Pensions Act 2011 (c. 19) on 1st April 2015. Section 7 amends section 6(1)(b) of the Pensions Act 2008 (c. 30) so that three years is substituted by two years and nine months. This will ensure that automatic re-enrolment will not happen more frequently than once in every period of two years and nine months. The two years and nine months interval applies to the employer rather than the jobholder.

A full impact assessment has not been prepared for this Order as no impact on the private, public or voluntary sectors is foreseen.