The Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Consultation by Employers and Miscellaneous Amendment) Regulations 2006

  1. Introductory Text

  2. Introductory

    1. 1.Citation, commencement and extent

    2. 2.Interpretation

  3. Application of Regulations

    1. 3.Application

    2. 4.Excluded employers: occupational pension schemes

    3. 5.Excluded employers: personal pension schemes

  4. Restriction on decision-making pending completion of consultation

    1. 6.Consultation required before decisions to make listed changes affecting schemes

    2. 7.Notifications to employers and duty to consult

    3. 8.Listed changes: occupational pension schemes

    4. 9.Listed changes: personal pension schemes

    5. 10.Listed changes: exclusions

  5. Information provision and consultation

    1. 11.Requirement to provide information

    2. 12.Consultation under existing arrangements

    3. 13.Consultation in cases not covered by regulation 12

    4. 14.Election of representatives

    5. 15.Conduct of consultation

    6. 16.End of consultation

  6. Miscellaneous

    1. 17.Employment rights and protections in connection with consultation

    2. 18.Exclusivity of remedy

    3. 19.Powers of the Regulator to waive or relax requirements

    4. 20.Waiver or relaxation of requirements: amendment of Schedule 2 to the Pensions Act 2004

    5. 21.Waiver or relaxation of requirements: prescribed regulatory function

    6. 22.Miscellaneous amendment

  7. Signature

    1. SCHEDULE

      Employment rights and protections in connection with consultation

      1. 1.In this Schedule— “the 1996 Act” means the Employment Rights...

      2. Right to time off and remuneration

        1. 2.(1) An employee who— (a) is a representative falling within...

        2. 3.(1) An employee who is permitted to take time off...

        3. 4.(1) An employee may present a complaint to an employment...

      3. Protections against unfair dismissal

        1. 5.(1) An employee who is dismissed and to whom sub-paragraph...

        2. 6.(1) In section 105 of the 1996 Act (redundancy as...

      4. Protections from suffering other detriment in employment

        1. 7.(1) An employee to whom sub-paragraph (2) or (4) applies...

        2. 8.(1) An employee may present a complaint to an employment...

      5. Conciliation and appeals

        1. 9.In section 18(1) of the Employment Tribunals Act 1996 (which...

        2. 10.In section 21(1) of the Employment Tribunals Act 1996 (circumstances...

      6. Miscellaneous

        1. 11.Any provision in any agreement (whether an employee’s contract or...

        2. 12.(1) Any provision in any agreement (whether an employee’s contract...

        3. 13.(1) For the purposes of paragraph 12(3) the conditions regulating...

  9. Explanatory Note