The Judicial Pensions (Fee-Paid Judges) Regulations 2017

Lump sum on death: death in service

45.—(1) Paragraph (2) applies where—

(a) a member (“P”) dies (on or after the commencement day) without having retired; and

(b) P is (immediately before death) an active member of the principal scheme.

(2) On the day after that on which P dies, the relevant person becomes entitled to a lump sum.

(3) The amount of the lump sum to which the relevant person becomes entitled under paragraph (2) is determined under paragraph (5), (7) or (9), whichever applies).

(4) Paragraph (5) applies where, on P’s death, P has reckonable service in only one eligible fee-paid judicial office (“the relevant office”).

(5) The amount of the lump sum is to be determined in accordance with the following formula—

where—

(a)

S is the appropriate annual salary of the judicial office held by P immediately before P’s death, determined as if P had retired on the date of P’s death;

(b)

M is P’s qualifying fee-paid service in the relevant office; and

(c)

N is the annual divisor for that office specified in column 2 of the Schedule;

(d)

JS is P’s qualifying judicial service after 6th April 2000, expressed in years and any fraction of a year.

(6) Paragraph (7) applies where—

(a) on P’s death, P has reckonable service in more than one eligible fee-paid judicial office; and

(b) P did not, at any time before death, hold more than one eligible fee-paid judicial office simultaneously.

(7) The amount of the lump sum is to be determined in accordance with the following formula—

where—

(a)

S is the appropriate annual salary of the judicial office held by P immediately before P’s death, determined as if P had retired on the date of P’s death;

(b)

AM is the aggregate length of P’s qualifying fee-paid service in eligible fee-paid judicial offices;

(c)

JS is P’s qualifying judicial service after 6th April 2000, expressed in years and any fraction of a year.

(8) Paragraph (9) applies where—

(a) immediately before death P held more than one eligible fee-paid judicial office (“the relevant offices”), and

(b) at any time before retirement, P held two or more eligible fee-paid judicial offices simultaneously.

(9) The amount of the lump sum is determined by taking the following steps.

Step 1

• Determine the lump sum under paragraph (5) in relation to each relevant office which P held simultaneously, as if that office were the only eligible fee-paid relevant office held by P.

Step 2

• Determine the lump sum under paragraph (7) in relation to those relevant offices which P did not hold simultaneously, and for these purposes, in paragraph (7)(a), S is—

  (i)

  where P held a single eligible fee-paid judicial office immediately before P’s death, the appropriate annual salary of that judicial office, determined as if P had retired on the date of P’s death;

  (ii)

  where P held more than one eligible fee-paid judicial office immediately before P’s death, the highest appropriate annual salary of those offices, determined as if P had retired on the date of P’s death.

Step 3

• Add together each of the lump sums found under Step 1 and the lump sum found under Step 2.

(10) Paragraph (11) applies where—

(a) during one or more parts of the period for which P held an eligible fee-paid judicial office (“office A”), P held one or more other eligible fee-paid judicial offices simultaneously, and

(b) during one or more parts of that period P held no eligible fee-paid judicial office other than office A.

(11) For the purposes of paragraph (9)—

(a) office A is to be treated as two different relevant offices—

(i) the first of which (“the first office”) is held for the period (or the aggregate of the periods) mentioned in paragraph (10)(a), and accordingly, is taken into consideration in Step 1 in paragraph (9), and

(ii) the second of which (“the second office”) is held for the period (or the aggregate of the periods) mentioned in paragraph (10)(b) and, accordingly is taken into consideration in Step 2 in paragraph (9), and

(b) P’s reckonable service in office A is to be apportioned between the first and the second offices in the same proportion as that between the period P held the first office and the period P held the second office.

(12) In this regulation “the relevant person” means—

(a) the person nominated by P for the purpose of this regulation by notice in writing to the administrators; or

(b) in default of such nomination, P’s personal representatives, on behalf of P’s estate.