The Judicial Pensions (Fee-Paid Judges) Regulations 2017

[F1 Definitions U.K.

51B.— (1) In this Part—

(a) “contributions” means any contribution paid under Part 8 or 9 of these Regulations, regulation 4.6 of the Judicial Pensions (Additional Voluntary Contributions) Regulations 1995, the Judicial Pensions (Contributions) Regulations 1995, or the Judicial Pensions (Contributions) Regulations 2012;

(b) “excess contributions payment” means the amount of contributions paid by P during an excess contributions period;

(c) “excess contributions period” means any period during which P paid contributions after the aggregate length of P’s reckonable service and JUPRA service exceeded 20 years;

(d) “interim contributions refund” means the total amount (if any) that was paid to any person under arrangements made for the purpose of refunding excess contributions payments before the amendment day.

(2) For the purposes of the definition of “excess contributions period”—

(a) reckonable service means the aggregate length of P’s reckonable service in eligible fee-paid judicial offices, including any eligible fee-paid offices in respect of which P has taken partial retirement, determined in accordance with regulation 5 but as if regulation 5(2) did not apply;

(b) reckonable service includes added years of pension credit purchased under regulation 4.2(2) of the Judicial Pensions (Additional Voluntary Contributions) Regulations 1995;

(c) any contributions made by P under regulation 4.6 of the Judicial Pensions (Additional Voluntary Contributions) Regulations 1995 are deemed to have been the most recent contributions made by P, regardless of when they were actually made (except for the purpose of calculating interest under regulation 51C(1)); and

(d) reckonable service in any office which P held before 31st March 1995 which is specified in Tables 1 or 2 of Schedule 1 is multiplied by 20 and divided by 15.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Pt. 7A inserted (1.4.2023) by The Judicial Pensions (Fee-Paid Judges) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/403), regs. 1(1), 31