PART 2PRINCIPAL SCHEME MEMBERSHIP
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A person (“P”) is a member of the principal scheme if P held a fee-paid judicial office at any time in the period beginning with 7th April 2000 and ending with 31st March 2015 and either—
a
P did not cease to hold that office before the relevant date;
b
P ceased to hold that office before the relevant date and condition A is met; or
c
P died before the relevant date without having ceased to hold that office and condition B is met.
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Condition A is that—
a
P presented a claim under the Part-time Worker (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 200012 that P is entitled to a pension by virtue of holding that office (“a relevant claim”) to an employment tribunal or an industrial tribunal, and—
i
the claim was presented before the end of the period of 3 months beginning with the date on which P ceased to hold that office; or
ii
the tribunal has determined, or the appropriate Minister has accepted, that it is just and equitable to extend time for the presentation of the claim; or
b
the appropriate Minister has accepted that if P presented a relevant claim, that claim would be in time (taking into account any extension of time).
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Condition B is that—
a
P’s personal representatives made a claim to an employment tribunal or an industrial tribunal before the end of the period of 3 months beginning with the date on which P died that benefits are payable in respect of P’s death by virtue of P having held that office and that claim has not been rejected before the commencement day, or
b
an employment tribunal or an industrial tribunal has determined, or the appropriate Minister has accepted, that P’s personal representatives are entitled to bring a claim that benefits are payable in respect of P’s death by virtue of P having held that office.
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Where P ceased to hold a fee-paid judicial office before the relevant date and also died before the relevant date, but—
a
P had presented a relevant claim which would have satisfied paragraph (2)(a) before death, Condition A is to be treated as satisfied, or
b
P’s personal representatives had made a claim before the end of the period of 3 months beginning with the date on which P ceased to hold that office that benefits are payable in respect of P’s death by virtue of P having held that office, Condition B is to be treated as satisfied.
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P is also a member of the principal scheme if—
a
P did not hold a fee-paid judicial office before 1st April 2015;
b
P is a person in whose case section 18(1) of the 2013 Act or section 18(1) of the 2014 Act (restriction of existing pension schemes) does not apply in relation to an existing scheme by virtue of provision made under section 18(5) or (5A)13 of the 2013 Act or section 18(5) or (6) of the 2014 Act (transitional protection under existing schemes); and
c
within the period of 5 years beginning with the final day of service in respect of which P is entitled to benefits under the existing scheme mentioned in sub-paragraph (b), P is appointed to a fee-paid judicial office.
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For the purposes of this regulation, “the relevant date” is—
a
1st February 2013 where P only held a fee-paid judicial office—
i
whose jurisdiction is exercised exclusively in relation to Northern Ireland,
ii
which is not one of the offices referred to in paragraph 11 of Schedule 2 to the Northern Ireland Act 199816;
b
2nd December 2012 in all other cases.