{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/occupational-and-personal-pension-schemes-automatic-enrolment-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2012/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/occupational-and-personal-pension-schemes-automatic-enrolment-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2012/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2012/237",
  "legislation_title": "The Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Automatic Enrolment) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/occupational-and-personal-pension-schemes-automatic-enrolment-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2012",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Pensions\nMade 8th June 2012\nComing into operation 1st July 2012\nThe Department for Social Development makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 107A(15)(b) and 177(2) to (4) of the Pension Schemes (Northern Ireland) Act 1993 , Articles 49(8) and 166(1) to (3) of the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 , and now vested in it , and sections 2(3), 3(2), (5) and (6), 5(2), (4), (6), (7) and (8), 6(1)(b) and (2), 7(4) to (6), 8(2)(b) and (3) to (6), 9(3), 10, 15(1) and (2), 16(2) and (3)(c), 17(1)(c), 18(c), 22(4) to (7), 23(1)(b) and (c), (3) and (6), 24(1), 25, 27, 28(1), (2)(b), (3A) and (4) to (7), 30(5), (6)(c) and (7A), 33(2), 37(3), 59 and 113(2) of the Pensions (No. 2) Act (Northern Ireland) 2008 .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1993 c. 49; section 107A was inserted by Article 10 of the Welfare Reform and Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/3147 (N.I. 11)); see also subsection (18) of that section as added by section 49 of the Pensions (No. 2) Act (Northern Ireland) 2008 (c. 13 (N.I.))"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "S.I. 1995/3213 (N.I. 22); Article 49(8) was substituted by Article 11(1) of the Welfare Reform and Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1999"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "See Article 8(b) of S.R. 1999 No. 481"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M4",
      "text": "2008 c. 13 (N.I.); sections 2(3) and 5(4) were substituted by section 5(1) and (3) of the Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2012 (c. 3 (N.I.)); section 5(8) was amended by section 5(4) of that Act; section 6(1)(b) was amended by section 8 of that Act; section 23 was substituted by section 12(2) of that Act; section 28 was amended by sections 13 and 14 of that Act; section 30(5) was amended by section 16(2) of that Act; section 30(7A) was inserted by section 15(4) of that Act; section 59 was amended by section 33(2) of that Act"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2012/237/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:15:19.916435+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."
}