Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Automatic Enrolment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010.
Regulation 2 adds two new circumstances where the employer duties in sections 3(2) (to enrol eligible jobholders) and 5(2) (to re-enrol eligible jobholders) of that Act are turned into a discretion. Those circumstances are when paragraph 1 (fixed protection 2016) or 9 (individual protection 2016) of Schedule 4 to the Finance Act 2016 applies to the jobholder.