Last Change:
06/28/2024
Uganda Retirement Benefits Regulatory Authority Act (2011)
Year: 2011
Type: Domestic law
Rights Category: Social protection
Description
An Act to establish a Retirement Benefits Regulatory Authority to regulate the establishment, management and operation of retirement benefits schemes in Uganda in both the private and public sectors; to supervise institutions which provide retirement benefits products and services; to protect the interests of members and beneficiaries of retirement benefits schemes; to establish a Fund into which shall be paid all moneys for defraying the expenses of the Uganda Retirement Benefits Regulatory Authority; to promote the development of the retirement benefits sector; to provide for the licensing of custodians, trustees, administrators and fund managers of retirement benefits schemes; the appointment of inspectors and interim administrators; to provide for the establishment of a retirement Benefits Appeals Tribunal and for related matters.
Selected provisions
(1) An employer shall, pay contributions in respect of his or her employee into a retirement benefits scheme licensed under this Act.
(2) An employer shall remit the contribution in respect of his or her employee to the retirement benefits scheme before the fifteenth day of the following month.
(3) An employer who fails to remit the contributions within the prescribed time, commits an offence and is liable to make the remittance already due, and in addition pay a fine of not less than ten percent of the total contribution that remains unpaid for each month or part of each month the default continues.