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

Timing of automatic re-enrolment 6 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. 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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. 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .