The Judicial Pensions (Preservation of Benefits) Order (Northern Ireland) 1995

Interpretation

2.  In this Order—

“the 1993 Act” means the Judicial Pensions and Retirement Act 1993;

“full rate” means the rate at which a pension might have been paid to an office-holder if his service had continued until normal pension age, but calculated by reference to—

(a)

the pensionable pay (as defined by section 3(3)(a) of the 1993 Act), or

(b)

in respect of a pension payable under section 19 of the 1993 Act, the pensionable pay if the pension-capped salary had fallen to be determined under section 3(3)(b) of the 1993 Act without the limit imposed by reference to the permitted maximum there mentioned,

attaching to the office of the office-holder at the date he ceased (within the meaning of Article 4 below) to hold office;

“normal pension age” means the earliest age at which an office-holder would have been able to retire with a pension immediately payable under section 2(1) of the 1993 Act;

“office-holder” means a person who holds, or has held, scheduled office;

“qualifying judicial office” has the meaning given to it in section 1(6) of the 1993 Act;

“relevant service” means service in qualifying judicial office;

“scheduled office” means an office listed in the Schedule.