Pensions (Extension of Automatic Enrolment) Act (Northern Ireland) 2025
AI-assisted research summary: The Department for Communities must report to the Assembly on the effects of certain pension-regulation changes, and the Department may make regulations and orders to change ages, qualifying earnings, and commencement dates.
Pensions (Extension of Automatic Enrolment) Act (Northern Ireland) 2025 An Act to make provision about the extension of pensions automatic enrolment to jobholders under the age of 22; to make provision about the lower qualifying earnings threshold for automatic enrolment; and for connected purposes. BE IT ENACTED by being passed by the Northern Ireland Assembly and assented to by His Majesty as follows: The Pensions (No. 2) Act (Northern Ireland) 2008 is amended as follows. In section 3 (automatic enrolment), after subsection (1) insert— The Department may by regulations amend subsection (1)(a) so as to decrease the age for the time being specified in that paragraph. In section 5 (automatic re-enrolment), after subsection (1B) insert— The Department may by regulations amend subsections (1)(a) and (1A)(a) so as to decrease either or both of the ages for the time being specified in those paragraphs. After section 13 (qualifying earnings) insert— The Department may by regulations— amend section 13(1)(a) so as to reduce the amount for the time being specified in that paragraph, or repeal— section 9 (workers without qualifying earnings), and section 13(1)(a). Regulations under this section may include such amendments, repeals or revocations of any provision of this Act or any other statutory provision as appear to the Department to be expedient in consequence of the repeal of sections 9 and 13(1)(a). In section 112(4) (orders or regulations subject to the confirmatory procedure), in paragraph (a), after “section” insert “3(1A), 5(1C), 13A,”. The Department for Communities must lay before the Assembly a report setting out its assessment of the effects of any changes made by regulations under section 3(1A), 5(1C) or 13A of the Pensions (No. 2) Act (Northern Ireland) 2008. The report must be laid at least 36 months, and no more than 42 months, after the coming into operation of the first regulations made under any of section 3(1A), 5(1C) or 13A of that Act. Sections 1 and 2 come into operation on such day or days as the Department for Communities may by order appoint. This section comes into operation on the day after this Act receives Royal Assent. This Act may be cited as the Pensions (Extension of Automatic Enrolment) Act (Northern Ireland) 2025. S. 1 not in operation at Royal Assent, see s. 3(1) S. 2 not in operation at Royal Assent, see s. 3(1) S. 3 in operation at 19.6.2025, see s. 3(2)