PART 4Provision in relation to certain fee-paid judges

CHAPTER 6Benefits and contributions previously paid or payable

Benefits previously paid or payable35.

(1)

Paragraph (2) applies in relation to any F1payments purporting to be benefits that the 2015 scheme has at any time paid (“the purported benefits”) to a person so far as—

(a)

they are calculated by reference to R’s relevant service in a salaried judicial office, and

(b)

they are F2payments that a person was not entitled to receive F3as benefits from the 2015 scheme.

(2)

F4The purported benefits are to be treated for all purposes—

(a)

as not having been paid to the person by the 2015 scheme, but

(b)

as having been paid to the person instead by the Part 4 judicial legacy salaried scheme.

(3)

Paragraph (4) applies in relation to any F5payments purporting to be benefits that the 2015 scheme has at any time paid (“the purported benefits”) to a person so far as—

(a)

they are calculated by reference to R’s relevant service in a fee-paid judicial office, and

(b)

they are F6payments that a person was not entitled to receive F7as benefits from the 2015 scheme.

(4)

F8The purported benefits are to be treated for all purposes—

(a)

as not having been paid to the person by the 2015 scheme, but

(b)

as having been paid to the person instead by the judicial legacy fee-paid scheme.

(5)

Where, after taking into account the effect of paragraphs (2) and (4)—

(a)

a judicial legacy scheme owes a person an amount in respect of benefits which are calculated by reference to R’s relevant service in a judicial office, or

(b)

a person owes a judicial legacy scheme an amount in respect of such benefits,

such amount must be paid in accordance with regulation 37.