[111A Monitoring of employers' payments to personal pension schemes]
Pension Schemes Act 1993 (1993 c 48) | Legislation

[111A  Monitoring of employers' payments to personal pension schemes]

[(1)     This section applies where—

(a)     an employee is a member of a personal pension scheme; and

(b)     direct payment arrangements exist between the employee and his employer.

(2)     In this section “direct payment arrangements” means arrangements under which contributions fall to be paid by or on behalf of the employer towards the scheme—

(a)     on the employer's own account (but in respect of the employee); or

(b)     on behalf of the employee out of deductions from the employee's earnings.

[(3)     The trustees or managers of the scheme must monitor the payment of contributions by or on behalf of the employer under the direct payment arrangements.

(4)     The trustees or managers may request the employer to provide them, (or arrange for them to be provided) with the payment information specified in the request.

(5)     For the purposes of subsection (4) “payment information” is information required by the trustees or managers to enable them to discharge the duty imposed by subsection (3).

(6)     The employer must comply with a request under subsection (4) within a reasonable period.

(7)     Where, as a result

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