This document is the Equality Impact Assessment Final Report on a Northern Ireland Assembly Bill, the Pensions (Extension of Automatic Enrolment) Bill (“the Bill”) to extend automatic enrolment for workplace pensions.
A draft Equality Impact Assessment on the Bill was consulted on from 18 September to 11 December 2023. Following the end of the 12 week consultation period, the Department has reviewed all the consultation responses received. Upon analysis, responses from the consultation did not identify any adverse impacts to Section 75 groups arising from the proposals themselves.
The Bill if enacted would amend the Pensions (No.2) Act (NI) 2008 (“the Act”) so as to provide regulation making powers to the Department for Communities to lower the age at which qualifying workers are automatically enrolled into a workplace pension and reduce or abolish the Lower Limit of the qualifying earnings band contained in the Act.
The Pensions (Extension of Automatic Enrolment) Bill Equality Impact Assessment Final Report