The Judicial Pensions Regulations 2022

CHAPTER 1Eligibility for active membership

Qualifying judicial office

7.  For the purpose of these Regulations, a person who is appointed to an office specified in an order made under paragraph 2 of Schedule 1 (judiciary) to the Act is in a qualifying judicial office.

Eligible persons

8.—(1) For the purposes of this Part, an eligible person is a person who is eligible to be an active member of this scheme.

(2) A person who begins service in a qualifying judicial office (P) becomes an eligible person in relation to that service unless paragraph (3) applies.

(3) This paragraph applies if the terms of P’s office exclude P from being an active member of this scheme.

Service in two or more qualifying judicial offices

9.  If a person is in service in two or more qualifying judicial offices, regulation 8 applies separately in relation to each office.