Automatic enrolment: career average schemes as qualifying schemes
Start date 30 April 2012
End date 11 June 2012
This consultation set out proposals to revise Regulation 36 of the Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Automatic Enrolment) Regulations 2010. It sought views on whether the proposals will achieve the intended effect, particularly from employers with Career Average Revalued Earnings (CARE) pension schemes that they are intending to use as qualifying schemes.
Government response
The Government published its response to this consultation on 2 July 2012.
- Government response – Automatic enrolment: career average schemes as qualifying schemes (116KB)

- Regulation – The Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Automatic Enrolment) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2012 (24KB)

- Explanatory memo – The Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Automatic Enrolment) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2012 (52KB)
The consultation
- Automatic enrolment: career average schemes as qualifying schemes – consultation (75KB)

- Regulation – The Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Automatic Enrolment) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2012 (25KB)

More information
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