The Judicial Pensions (Remediable Service etc.) Regulations 2023

CHAPTER 1 U.K. Application and Interpretation

Application of Part U.K.

29.—(1) This Part applies where a relevant fee-paid judge(1) (“R”) has relevant service in a judicial office.

(2) “Relevant service” is any continuous period of service that meets the following conditions.

(3) The first condition is that the service in question took place in the period beginning with 1st April 2015 and ending with 31st March 2022.

(4) The second condition is that the service—

(a) is pensionable service under a judicial legacy scheme, or

(b) would have been pensionable service under a judicial scheme but for the fact that the person, in accordance with the scheme, opted that it should not be (or failed to opt that it should be) pensionable service under the scheme.

(5) The second condition is met if all of the service in question falls within paragraph (4)(a) and (b) (even if it does not fall within only one of those paragraphs).

(6) The third condition is that there is no disqualifying gap in service(2) falling within the period—

(a) beginning with the day after the most recent day in relation to which section 103(3)(c) PSPJOA 2022 applies in relation to R, and

(b) ending with the day before the first day of the relevant service.

(7) For the purposes of paragraph (4)(b), a person is treated as having opted in accordance with the scheme that service should not be pensionable service under a judicial scheme if the service would have been pensionable service under that scheme (or would have been if the person had opted that it should be) but for the fact that the person had a partnership pension account.

(8) This Part does not apply in relation to any payment or transfer of assets and liabilities that would otherwise be payable or required to be made under this Part where a corresponding payment or a corresponding transfer of assets and liabilities has been made.

(9) In paragraph (8)—

a “corresponding payment” is a payment that has been made in relation to R’s relevant service that corresponds to a payment that is payable or required to be made under this Part;

a “corresponding transfer of assets and liabilities” is a transfer of assets and liabilities that has been made in relation to R’s relevant service that corresponds to a transfer of assets and liabilities that is required to be made under this Part.

(10) Regulations 33 to 45 do not apply in relation to R where R is a person described in—

(a) regulation 32(1) and the steps mentioned in regulation 32(2) have not been taken in relation to R;

(b) regulation 32(3) and the steps mentioned in regulation 32(4) have not been taken in relation to R.

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 29 in force at 5.7.2023, see reg. 1(b)

Interpretation of Part U.K.

30.—(1) In this Part—

“adult survivor” means a surviving spouse or surviving civil partner who is entitled under a judicial legacy scheme to a pension determined (to any extent) by reference to R’s relevant service;

“Part 4 judicial legacy salaried scheme”, in relation to a member’s relevant service in a salaried judicial office, means the judicial legacy salaried scheme under which the member most recently accrued pensionable service in the office.

(2) For the purposes of this Part—

(a) R’s relevant service is “PPA opted-out relevant service” if and to the extent that R made contributions to a partnership pension account in respect of it;

(b) the “notification period”, in relation to R, is (subject to sub-paragraph (c)) the period of three months beginning with the date on which the statement mentioned in regulation 31 is sent;

(c) the relevant authority may extend the period mentioned in sub-paragraph (b) in relation to R if the relevant authority considers it just and equitable to do so.

Commencement Information

I2 Reg. 30 in force at 5.7.2023, see reg. 1(b)

(1)

See section 103(3) of PSPJOA 2022 for the meaning of “relevant fee-paid judge”.

(2)

See section 39(9) of PSPJOA 2022 for the meaning of “disqualifying gap in service”.