The Judicial Pensions (Fee-Paid Judges) Regulations 2017

[F1Lump sum on death: death after retirement of member with preserved pensionU.K.

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11Y.—(1) Paragraph (2) applies if—

(a)a member (“P”), whose benefits are to be calculated under this Part in respect of one or more eligible fee-paid judicial offices (each “a relevant office”), dies having retired;

(b)where P retires on or after the amendment day, P is not, on retirement, an opted-out member; and

(c)if P had not died P would, on reaching normal pension age for one or more relevant offices, have become entitled to a pension under regulation 11I.

(2) On the day after that on which P dies, P’s personal representatives become entitled to a lump sum on behalf of P’s estate.

(3) The amount of the lump sum is twice the notional annual rate of pension determined in accordance with regulation 11J as though P had reached normal pension age for each relevant office on the day P died.]

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