The Automatic Enrolment (Earnings Trigger and Qualifying Earnings Band) Order (Northern Ireland) 2019

Made: 7th March 2019

Coming into operation: 6th April 2019

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Citation, commencement and interpretation

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• (1) This Order may be cited as the Automatic Enrolment (Earnings Trigger and Qualifying Earnings Band) Order (Northern Ireland) 2019 and shall come into operation on 6th April 2019.

• (2) In this Order any reference to a numbered section is a reference to the section of the Pensions (No. 2) Act (Northern Ireland) 2008 bearing that number.

Increase of amounts

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In section 13(1) (qualifying earnings)—

• (a) in paragraph (a)[^f00005] for “£6,032” substitute “£6,136”;

• (b) in paragraph (b)[^f00006] for “£46,350” substitute “£50,000”.

Rounded figures

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For a pay reference period referred to in an entry in column 1 of the Table—

• (a) the amount of a jobholder’s earnings which triggers the automatic enrolment or, as the case may be, the automatic re-enrolment of the jobholder pursuant to sections 3 and 5 respectively, is the rounded figure[^f00007] in the corresponding entry in column 2 of the Table;

• (b) the lower amount of qualifying earnings (see section 13(1)(a)), is the rounded figure[^f00008] in the corresponding entry in column 3 of the Table;

• (c) the upper amount of qualifying earnings (see section 13(1)(b)), is the rounded figure in the corresponding entry in column 4 of the Table.

Revocation

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The Automatic Enrolment (Earnings Trigger and Qualifying Earnings Band) Order (Northern Ireland) 2018[^f00009] is revoked.

Signed

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Communities on 7th March 2019

Anne McCleary — A senior officer of the — Department for Communities

Explanatory note

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Footnotes

[^f00001]: See section 1(7) of the Departments Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c. 5 (N.I.))

[^f00002]: 2008 c. 13 (N.I.); section 14 was amended by section 9(1) of the Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2012 (c. 3 (N.I.)); section 15A was inserted by section 10 of that Act

[^f00003]: S.I. 2019/374

[^f00004]: 2008 c. 30

[^f00007]: See sections 3(6B), 5(7B) and 15A of the Pensions (No. 2) Act (Northern Ireland) 2008. Sections 3(6B) and 5(7B) were inserted by section 6(2) and (4) of the Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2012 and deal with pay reference periods of less, or more, than 12 months. Section 15A provides for the specification of rounded figures in respect of specified pay reference periods

[^f00008]: See sections 13(2) and 15A of the Pensions (No. 2) Act (Northern Ireland) 2008. Section 13(2) deals with pay reference periods of less, or more, than 12 months in connection with the amounts constituting the lower and upper amounts of the qualifying earnings band

[^f00009]: S.R. 2018 No. 52

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Editorial notes

[^key-70f65c5005298955a3e6a8478d8c7d10]: Order revoked (6.4.2021) by The Automatic Enrolment (Earnings Trigger and Qualifying Earnings Band) Order (Northern Ireland) 2021 (S.R. 2021/66), arts. 1(1), 4(a)