The Judicial Pensions (Fee-Paid Judges) Regulations 2017

CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION

Interpretation

116.  In this Part—

“active JASAPS member” means a JASAPS member who is an active member of the principal scheme;

“added surviving adult’s pension” has the meaning given in regulation 117(3);

“assumed contribution commencement date” has the meaning given in regulation 118(1);

“assumed retirement age” has the meaning given in regulation 118(3);

“assumed retirement date” means the date on which an active JASAPS member reaches the assumed retirement age;

“JASAPS” means the scheme constituted by this Part of the Regulations;

“JASAPS member” means a member of the JASAPS;

“periodic contributions start date” has the meaning given in regulation 123(3);

“retired JASAPS member” means a JASAPS member who has retired from fee-paying judicial office before the commencement day;

“Table 2” means the table in Schedule 2 to the 1995 Regulations(1).

Membership

117.—(1) Membership of the JASAPS is open to active and retired members of the principal scheme (but not to opted-out members) who held an eligible fee-paid judicial office before 6th April 2006 and who have a spouse or civil partner to whom benefits could be paid under this Part.

(2) A person to whom membership of the JASAPS is open may become a JASAPS member by giving notice in writing to the administrators within 12 months of the commencement day (or by such later date as the administrators may agree).

(3) A JASAPS member has the right to purchase added units of surviving adult’s pension (“added surviving adult’s pension”) in accordance with the provisions of this Part.

Assumed dates etc

118.—(1) For the purposes of this Part, a JASAPS member must nominate a date (“the assumed contribution commencement date”) from which contributions are assumed to have been payable in relation to added surviving adult’s pension.

(2) The date nominated under paragraph (1) must be no earlier than the date on which the JASAPS member first held an eligible fee-paid judicial office and in any event must be between 7th April 2000 and 5th April 2006.

(3) For the purposes of this Part, an active JASAPS member must nominate an age between the age of 60 and the member’s compulsory retirement age at which that member intends to retire (“the assumed retirement age”).

(1)

S.I. 1995/637. The tables in Schedule 2 were substituted by S.I. 1996/52.