{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/automatic-enrolment-earnings-trigger-and-qualifying-earnings-band-order-northern-ireland-2021/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2021/66",
  "legislation_title": "The Automatic Enrolment (Earnings Trigger and Qualifying Earnings Band) Order (Northern Ireland) 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/automatic-enrolment-earnings-trigger-and-qualifying-earnings-band-order-northern-ireland-2021",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Pensions\nMade 16th March 2021\nComing into operation 6th April 2021\nThe Department for Communities makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 14 and 15A(1) of the Pensions (No. 2) Act (Northern Ireland) 2008.\nThe Secretary of State for Work and Pensions has made an Order under sections 14(2) and 15A(1) of the Pensions Act 2008.\nAccordingly the Department for Communities makes the following Order:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See section 1(7) of the Departments Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c. 5 (N.I.))"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "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"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 2021/314"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "2008 c. 30"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2021/66/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:39:52.167531+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}