The Judicial Pensions (Additional Voluntary Contributions) (Amendment) Regulations 1996

9.  Regulation 4.3 is amended as follows—

(a) for paragraph (3) substitute—

“(3) The administrators shall require the provision of information relating to retained benefits in accordance with regulation 2.3.”.

(b) for paragraph (4)(a) substitute—

“(a) the period referred to in paragraph (5); and”.

(c) after paragraph (4) insert—

“(5) The period referred to in paragraph (4)(a) is—

(a) where Part I applies to a member by virtue of section 1(1)(a) of the 1993 Act, the length of prospective service (in years and days) from the date of the scheme member’s first appointment to qualifying judical office to his assumed retirement age; or

(b) in all other cases, the length of prospective service to the assumed retirement age of the scheme member (in years and days) at the date of the commencement of the period of notional service on the basis that such service ends on the day before the day of transfer into the Part I scheme.

(6) In this regulation “notional service” means the total period of service credited to a member who transfers into the Part I scheme from another judical pension scheme, on the date of his transfer into that scheme, calculated in accordance with the Judical Pensions (Transfer Between Judical Pension Schemes) Regulations 1995(1).”.

(1)

S.I. 1995/636.