PART 3RETIREMENT BENEFITS
Retirement under age of 60 on removal from judicial office: entitlement to reduced pension15
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.