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title: "Pensions (Extension of Automatic Enrolment) Act 2023"
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# Pensions (Extension of Automatic Enrolment) Act 2023

## Title and introductory text {#prelims}

Pensions (Extension of Automatic Enrolment) Act 2023
2023 Chapter 44
An Act to make provision about the extension of pensions automatic enrolment to jobholders under the age of 22; to make provision about the lower qualifying earnings threshold for automatic enrolment; and for connected purposes.
[18th September 2023]
Be it enacted by the King’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

## 2 Extent, commencement and short title {#section-2}

(1) Section 1(1) and (5) and this section extend to England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
(2) Section 1(2) to (4) extends to England and Wales and Scotland.
(3) Section 1 comes into force on such day or days as the Secretary of State may by regulations made by statutory instrument appoint.
(4) This section comes into force on the day on which this Act is passed.
(5) This Act may be cited as the Pensions (Extension of Automatic Enrolment) Act 2023.