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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/occupational-and-personal-pension-schemes-automatic-enrolment-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2017/note",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2017/38",
  "legislation_title": "The Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Automatic Enrolment) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/occupational-and-personal-pension-schemes-automatic-enrolment-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2017",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Automatic Enrolment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010.\nRegulation 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.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2017/38/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:53:11.962979+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."
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