PART 9U.K.CONTRIBUTIONS IN RESPECT OF SERVICE ON OR AFTER COMMENCEMENT DAY

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C2Pts. 1-11 restricted (10.3.2022 for specified purposes, 1.4.2022 in so far as not already in force) by Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Act 2022 (c. 7), ss. 90, 131(1)(2)(f)

InterpretationU.K.

59.  In this Part—

“fee year” means the period beginning with 1st April in any year and ending with the 31st March in the following year; and

“P” means an active member.

Liability to pay contributions on fees in respect of qualifying fee-paid daysU.K.

60.  P must pay a contribution to the appropriate Minister on any fee paid to P in respect of a qualifying fee-paid day where the day is, or is after, the commencement day.

Qualifying fee-paid days disregarded if they do not add to reckonable serviceU.K.

61.—(1) Regulation 60 does not require P to pay a contribution in respect of a qualifying fee-paid day worked in an eligible fee-paid judicial office if P's reckonable service in relation to that office would have been equal to or greater than the maximum amount in relation to that office, had P retired on the day before that day.

(2) The reference in paragraph (1) to the maximum amount in relation to an office is to that amount as determined in accordance with regulation 5 (reckonable service).

Amount of contributionU.K.

62.—(1) The amount of the contribution payable on a fee under regulation 60 is the sum of—

(a)the personal benefits contribution, and

(b)the dependants' benefits contribution.

(2) The amount of the personal benefits contribution is the amount of the fee F1... multiplied by the percentage specified in column 2 of [F2Tables 1 to 7 in Schedule 3] for the relevant fee year, in the row relating to P's annualised fees for that year.

(3) The amount of the dependants' benefits contribution is the amount of the fee F3... multiplied by the percentage specified in [F4the relevant column in Tables 1 to 7 in Schedule 3] [F5and for this purpose the relevant column is determined under paragraph (3ZA) or (3ZB)].

[F6(3ZA) If the fee was for an office specified in Table 1 or Table 2 of Schedule 1, the relevant column is column 3.

(3ZB) If the fee was for an office specified in Table 3 or 4 of Schedule 1, the relevant column is column 4.]

F7(3A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F8(3B) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F9(3C) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F10(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F11(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F12(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(7) In [F13this regulation—]

F14(a). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

[F15(b)“the relevant fee year” means the fee year in which the qualifying fee-paid day in respect of which the fee is paid falls.]

Textual Amendments

Contribution rates for fee yearsU.K.

F1663.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

Payment of contributionU.K.

64.—[F17(1)] A contribution payable under this Part is to be paid by way of deduction from the fee to which it relates.

[F18(2) A contribution payable under section 52(4) of PSPJOA 2022 is to be paid in accordance with regulation 66 of the 2023 Regulations.]

Textual Amendments