{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/automatic-enrolment-offshore-employment-order-2012/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/automatic-enrolment-offshore-employment-order-2012/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2012/1388",
  "legislation_title": "The Automatic Enrolment (Offshore Employment) Order 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/automatic-enrolment-offshore-employment-order-2012",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement... and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Automatic Enrolment (Offshore Employment) Order 2012 and comes into force on 1st July 2012.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) In this Order—\n“the 2008 Act” means the Pensions Act 2008;\n“the (No. 2) 2008 Act” means the Pensions (No. 2) Act (Northern Ireland) 2008;\n“the English area”, “the Scottish area” and “the Northern Irish area” have the same meaning in each case as in article 1(2) of the Civil Jurisdiction (Offshore Activities) Order 1987.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 1(2) omitted (30.6.2020) by virtue of The Automatic Enrolment (Offshore Employment) (Amendment) Order 2020 (S.I. 2020/634), arts. 1, 2(a)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in art. 1 heading omitted (30.6.2020) by virtue of The Automatic Enrolment (Offshore Employment) (Amendment) Order 2020 (S.I. 2020/634), arts. 1, 2(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 1 in force at 1.7.2012, see art. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2008 c.13 (N.I.)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1987/2197."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/1388/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:30:23.687108+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."
}