The Judicial Pensions (Qualifying Judicial Offices etc.) (City of London) Order 1995

Discharge of the Common Council’s liability to pay pensions etc.

4.—(1) The Common Council shall—

(a) be discharged, to the extent specified in this Order, from the liability to pay pensions or other benefits mentioned in paragraph (2) in respect of a person’s service in relevant office in any of the circumstances specified in paragraph (3); and

(b) instead make payments to the Treasury determined in accordance with article 5.

(2) The pensions or other benefits are—

(a) any pension or lump sum payable under Part I, or

(b) any sums payable by way of pension or lump sum under section 19,

to or in respect of any person who has held relevant office and to whom Part I applies.

(3) The circumstances are that—

(a) the person first held relevant office on or after the appointed day; or

(b) the person—

(i) holds relevant office on the appointed day; and

(ii) held such office at any time before that day; and

(iii) has elected under section 1(2) for Part I to apply to him; or

(c) the person—

(i) held relevant office on the appointed day; and

(ii) held such office at any time before that day; and

(iii) notwithstanding that he satisfied the requirements in sub-paragraph (i) and (ii), has not elected under section 1(2) for Part I to apply to him; and

(iv) was appointed to some other qualifying judicial office, service in which would (apart from the 1993 Act) have been subject, in his case, to some other judicial pension scheme.