26.—(1) This regulation applies where a member (“P”) retires and subsequently resumes judicial office.
(2) The resumption of judicial office does not affect the entitlement of P to any payment under the principal scheme in respect of any period before the resumption.
(3) No amounts are payable to or in respect of P under the principal scheme as a result of the retirement mentioned in paragraph (1) in respect of any period after the resumption.
(4) On P's retirement after resuming judicial office—
(a)P's entitlement (and that of any other person) to any payment under the principal scheme; and
(b)the rate or amount of any such payment,
are (subject to paragraph (5)) to be determined as if no amounts had previously been paid under the principal scheme as a result of the retirement mentioned in paragraph (1).
(5) A person to whom a lump sum is paid under the principal scheme as a result of the retirement mentioned in paragraph (1) is not required to refund the lump sum; but if the whole or any part of it is not refunded, an amount equal to so much of it as has not been refunded is to be deducted from any lump sum which subsequently becomes payable to or in respect of that person under the principal scheme.