2.2.—(1) Membership of the scheme shall be open to —
(a)persons to whom Part I of the 1993 Act applies; and
(b)persons who hold qualifying judicial office on the appointed day, and who held such office at any time before that day but to whom Part I of the Act does not apply except —
(i)persons to whom Part I does not apply because the person has made an election under section 13 or under the corresponding provisions (as defined in section 13(9));
(ii)the Chief or any other Immigration Adjudicator under the Immigration Act 1971(1);
(iii)any of the officers from time to time specified in column 1 of Schedule 3 to the Judicature (Northern Ireland) Act 1978(2);
(iv)any officer who belongs to a pension scheme constituted under the County Courts Act (Northern Ireland) 1959(3), the Resident Magistrates' Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 1960(4) or the Judicial Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 1951(5);
(v)any officer who is a member of the PCSPS, including any person who has made an election under paragraph 3 of Schedule 1 to the Judicial Pensions Act 1981;
(vi)A Commissioner for the special purposes of the Income and Corporation Taxes Acts appointed under section 4 of the Taxes Management Act 1970(6) appointed before 1st January 1985.
(2) Application for membership of the scheme shall be made in writing to the administrators.
(3) Members who fall within paragraph (1)(a) above shall notify the administrators in their application of their assumed retirement age.
1970 c. 9. Section 4 was substituted by the Finance Act 1984 (c. 43) section 127, schedule 22.