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This is a draft item of legislation. This draft has since been made as a UK Statutory Instrument: The Automatic Enrolment (Offshore Employment) (Amendment) Order 2020 No. 634
Draft Order in Council laid before Parliament under section 97(7) of the Pensions Act 2008, for approval by resolution of each House of Parliament.
Draft Statutory Instruments
Pensions
Made
2020
Coming into force
30th June 2020
At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the day of
Present,
The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council
A draft of this Order has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, each House of Parliament in accordance with section 97(7) of the Pensions Act 2008(1).
Accordingly, Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 97(1) of that Act, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:
1. This Order may be cited as the Automatic Enrolment (Offshore Employment) (Amendment) Order 2020 and comes into force on 30th June 2020.
2. In the Automatic Enrolment (Offshore Employment) Order 2012(2)—
(a)in article 1—
(i)in the heading, omit “, expiry”,
(ii)omit paragraph (2);
(b)omit article 5.
Name
Clerk of the Privy Council
(This note is not part of the Order)
The Automatic Enrolment (Offshore Employment) Order 2012 applies certain provisions of the Pensions Act 2008 and the Pensions (No. 2) Act (Northern Ireland) 2008 to persons in offshore employment, with the effect that those persons are brought within the automatic enrolment for the pensions provisions of those Acts. This instrument removes a sunset provision within that Order which would otherwise have terminated the effect of that Order from 1st July 2020.
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