Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Act 2022

10 Deferred choice to receive new scheme benefits

(1) Scheme regulations for a Chapter 1 legacy scheme must make provision so as to secure that an election for new scheme benefits may be made in relation to the remediable service in an employment or office of a relevant member of the scheme that is pensionable service under the scheme (whether or not by virtue of section 2(1)).

(2) In this section “relevant member”, in relation to a Chapter 1 legacy scheme, means a member of the scheme who, immediately before the coming into force of section 2(1)—

(a) is an active or deferred member of the scheme, or of a Chapter 1 new scheme, in relation to the employment or office, and

(b) is not a pensioner member of a Chapter 1 scheme in relation to the employment or office.

(3) Where a member has remediable service in multiple employments or offices that is pensionable service under the scheme, provision made under subsection (1) must make provision for separate elections in relation to the member’s remediable service in each of them.

(4) Where an election by virtue of this section is made in relation to a member’s remediable service in an employment or office, the benefits payable under the scheme to or in respect of the member, so far as they are determined by reference to the member’s remediable service in that employment or office are new scheme benefits.

(5) An election by virtue of this section has effect in relation to all of the member’s remediable service in the employment or office in question that is pensionable service under the scheme.