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The Judicial Pensions (Remediable Service etc.) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2023

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Effect of immediate detriment remedy on pension contributions previously paid or payableN.I.

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20.—(1) Paragraph (2) applies where P has [F1made any payments purporting to be pension contributions under the 2015 scheme (“the purported contributions”)] which—

(a)are calculated by reference to P’s remediable service in a salaried judicial office, and

(b)as a result of any immediate detriment remedy that has been obtained in relation to that service, [F2were not payments that P was required to make under the 2015 scheme] .

(2) [F3The purported contributions] are to be treated for all purposes—

(a)as not having been paid by P to the 2015 scheme, but

(b)as having been paid by P instead to the scheme mentioned in sub-paragraph (a) of the definition of “relevant judicial legacy scheme” in regulation 14(1).

(3) Paragraph (4) applies where P has [F4made any payments purporting to be pension contributions under the 2015 scheme (“the purported contributions”)] which—

(a)are calculated by reference to P’s remediable service in a fee-paid judicial office, and

(b)as a result of any immediate detriment remedy that has been obtained in relation to that service, [F5were not payments that P was required to make under the 2015 scheme] .

(4) [F6The purported contributions] are to be treated for all purposes—

(a)as not having been paid by P to the 2015 scheme, but

(b)as having been paid by P instead to the judicial legacy fee-paid scheme.

(5) Where, as a result of any immediate detriment remedy that has been obtained (and after taking into account the effect of paragraphs (2) and (4))—

(a)a judicial legacy scheme owes a person an amount in respect of pension contributions which are calculated by reference to P’s remediable service, or

(b)a person owes a judicial legacy scheme an amount in respect of such contributions,

such amount must be paid only in accordance with regulation 22.

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