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(1)In the Judicial Pensions Act 1981, the following section shall be inserted after section 33—
(1)Regulations shall make provision entitling any member of a judicial pension scheme constituted by this Act or the Sheriffs’ Pensions (Scotland) Act 1961 to make voluntary contributions towards the cost of the provision of additional benefits under the scheme.
(2)The regulations—
(a)may not prohibit the payment of voluntary contributions;
(b)may not impose any limit on the amount which any member may pay by way of voluntary contributions other than an upper limit corresponding to that for the time being fixed by or under section 594 of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (exempt statutory schemes);
(c)must secure that any voluntary contributions paid by a member of a scheme are used to provide prescribed additional benefits for or in respect of him; and
(d)must secure that the value of such additional benefits is reasonable, having regard to—
(i)the amount paid by way of voluntary contributions;
(ii)the value of the other benefits provided under the scheme; and
(iii)the general value of benefits available to a person under any contract of life insurance entered into by him with an insurance company to which Part II of the Insurance Companies Act 1982 (regulation of insurance companies carrying on insurance business within the United Kingdom) applies.
(3)The regulations may, in particular—
(a)provide that the value of additional benefits offered on payment of voluntary contributions shall be determined in accordance with prescribed rules based on tables prepared for the purposes of the regulations by the Government Actuary; and
(b)prescribe the manner in which it is to be determined in any case whether the amount of a person’s contributions exceeds any limit imposed by virtue of subsection (2)(b) above.
(4)Nothing in subsection (2) shall be taken to prevent the regulations from limiting the overall amount which a member may pay by way of voluntary contributions by reference to the maximum entitlement of members under the scheme.
(5)Regulations made under this section may make provision for consequential and incidental matters, including, in particular, consequential provision with respect to any enactment referring or relating to lump sums payable under Part II of this Act.
(6)Regulations under this section may be made—
(a)by the Lord Chancellor; or
(b)in relation to pensions for service in offices existing only in Scotland, by the Secretary of State,
with the consent of the Treasury.
(7)The power to make regulations under this section shall be exercisable by statutory instrument.
(8)Any such statutory instrument shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.”
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(3)In Article 14 of the M1Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1986 (voluntary contributions in Northern Ireland) the following paragraph shall be inserted after paragraph (10)—
“(10A)This Article does not apply in relation to any pension payable under the Judicial Pensions Act 1981.”
Textual Amendments
F1S. 82(2) repealed (7.2.1994) by 1993 c. 48, s. 188, Sch. 5 Pt. I; S.I. 1994/86, art. 2
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