
2020 No. 51
Pensions
The Automatic Enrolment (Earnings Trigger and Qualifying Earnings Band) Order (Northern Ireland) 2020
Made 27th March 2020
Coming into operation 6th April 2020
The 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 .The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions has made an Order  under sections 14(2) and 15A(1) of the Pensions Act 2008 .Accordingly the Department for Communities makes the following Order:
Citation, commencement and interpretation
1 

(1) This Order may be cited as the Automatic Enrolment (Earnings Trigger and Qualifying Earnings Band) Order (Northern Ireland) 2020 and shall come into operation on 6th April 2020.
(2) In this Order any reference to a numbered section is a reference to the section of the Pensions (No. 2) Act (Northern Ireland) 2008 bearing that number.
Increase of amount
2 
In section 13(1)(a)  (qualifying earnings) for  “£6,136” substitute “
            £6,240
          ”.
Rounded figures
3 
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Revocations
4 
Articles 2(a) and 3 of the Automatic Enrolment (Earnings Trigger and Qualifying Earnings Band) Order (Northern Ireland) 2019  are revoked.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Communities on 27th March 2020
Anne McCleary

A senior officer of the
Department for Communities
