Title and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Judicial Pensions (Additional Benefits for Disregarded Earnings) Regulations 1995 and shall come into force on 31st March 1995.
Interpretation
2. In these Regulations —
“the 1993 Act” means the Judicial Pensions and Retirement Act 1993, and any reference to a Part or section by number alone shall be construed as a reference to the Part or section so numbered in that Act;
Timing and manner of payments of pensions and lump sums under section 19
3.—(1) The payment of pensions and lump sums under section 19 shall be made in the same manner, at the same time and intervals and to the same persons as the payment of pensions and lump sums are made under Part I.
(2) Any direction made by the Treasury under section 5 in respect of the cessation or resumption of a surviving spouse’s pension, or under sections 6, 7 or 8 in respect of the payment of a children’s pension shall apply equally to any surviving spouse’s pension or children’s pension payable under section 19 that is calculated by reference to the pension so payable under Part I.
Lump sums under section 19: clawback
4. A person to whom a lump sum is paid under section 19 but who resumes service in qualifying judicial office shall not be required to refund the lump sum; but if the whole or any part of it is not refunded, an amount equal to so much of it as has not been refunded shall be deducted from any lump sum which subsequently becomes payable to or in respect of him under section 19.
Mackay of Clashfern, C.
Dated 6th March 1995
Ian Lang
One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State
Dated 7th March 1995
Andrew Mitchell
Timothy Wood
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
Dated 7th March 1995