9 Monitoring of employers' payments to personal pension schemes

Part II Pensions: General

Payments by employers to pension schemes

9  Monitoring of employers' payments to personal pension schemes

In Part VI of the Pension Schemes Act 1993 (further requirements for protection of scheme members), after section 111 there shall be inserted—

“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 employer must secure that there is prepared, maintained and from time to time revised a record of the direct payment arrangements which complies with subsection (4).

(4)     The record must—

(a)     show the rates and due dates of contributions payable under the direct payment arrangements, and

(b)     satisfy prescribed requirements.

(5)     The employer must, within the prescribed period after the preparation

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