Retirement under age of 60 on removal from judicial office: entitlement to reduced pensionU.K.
15.—(1) This regulation applies where—
(a)a member (“P”) retires (whether before, on or after the commencement day) by virtue of having been removed from all judicial offices held by P;
(b)on the day on which P retires, P has not reached the age of 60; and
(c)the appropriate Minister recommends to the administrators that P's accrued rights under the principal scheme be given immediate effect.
(2) The administrators must notify P of the recommendation under paragraph (1)(c).
(3) If P elects in writing to the administrators within 3 months of receiving the notice that P wishes to receive benefits under this regulation—
(a)P becomes entitled, on the day on which the administrators receive the election, to the payment for life of a pension; and
(b)P also becomes entitled, on that day, to the amount P would have been entitled to if P had been entitled under this regulation to the payment of a pension in respect of the period beginning with the pension start day and ending with the day before the day mentioned in sub-paragraph (a).
(4) In this regulation “the pension start day” means—
(a)the day after that on which P retires; or
(b)if later, the commencement day.