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(1)Scheme regulations for a judicial scheme may make provision for the purpose of putting relevant fee-paid judges, so far as possible, in the position they would have been in if they had always been recognised as being full protection members of a judicial legacy scheme.
(2)The provision that may be made under subsection (1) includes in particular—
(a)provision about the amount of benefits to which a person is or was entitled in respect of pensionable service;
(b)provision about pension contributions a person is or was required to pay to the scheme in respect of pensionable service;
(c)provision about cases in which voluntary contributions have been paid to a judicial 2015 scheme (including provision under which rights to benefits referable to the contributions are retained in the judicial 2015 scheme);
(d)provision about cases in which a person has transferred rights into a judicial 2015 scheme (including provision under which the rights are retained in the judicial 2015 scheme);
(e)provision about cases in which a person has a partnership pension account;
(f)provision about cases in which a person has partially retired;
(g)provision enabling a scheme manager to pay amounts by way of compensation, including provision requiring an employer in relation to the scheme to reimburse the scheme manager for such amounts;
(h)provision corresponding or similar to any provision of or made under—
(i)section 53 (effective pension age payments);
(ii)section 54 (transitional protection allowance);
(iii)section 55 (power to reduce benefits in lieu of paying liabilities owed to the scheme);
(iv)section 56 (powers to reduce or waive liabilities);
(v)section 57 (pension credit members);
(vi)section 61 (interest and process).
(3)For the purposes of this section a person (“P”) is a “relevant fee-paid judge” if—
(a)on 31 March 2012—
(i)P held a fee-paid judicial office, and
(ii)did not hold a salaried judicial office,
(b)on 1 April 2012, P was aged 55 or over,
(c)at any time in the period beginning with 1 April 2012 and ending with the day before the relevant date, P held a salaried judicial office, and
(d)either—
(i)on the relevant date, P did not hold a fee-paid judicial office, or
(ii)the condition in regulation 8(2)(a) of the judicial legacy fee-paid scheme (members) is not met in relation to P and the fee-paid judicial office mentioned in paragraph (a)(i).
(4)In this section “full protection member”—
(a)in relation to a judicial office within section 71(1)(a) or (b), has the same meaning as in Schedule 2 to the Judicial Pensions Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/182) (see paragraph 1 of that Schedule), or
(b)in relation to a judicial office within section 71(1)(c), has the same meaning as in Schedule 2 to the Judicial Pensions Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. (N.I.) 2015 No. 76) (see paragraph 1 of that Schedule).
(5)In this section “the relevant date”—
(a)in relation to a judicial office within section 71(1)(a) or (b), means 2 December 2012;
(b)in relation to a judicial office within section 71(1)(c), means 1 February 2013.
(6)Expressions used in this section have the same meaning as in Chapter 2.