PART 4Provision in relation to certain fee-paid judges

CHAPTER 6Benefits and contributions previously paid or payable

Pension contributions previously paid or payableI136

1

Paragraph (2) applies where R has F1made any payments purporting to be pension contributions under the 2015 scheme (“the purported contributions”) which—

a

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

b

F2were payments which, had R been recognised as a full protection member31 of a judicial legacy scheme in relation to that service, R would not have been required to pay to the 2015 scheme.

2

F3The purported contributions are to be treated for all purposes—

a

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

b

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

3

Paragraph (4) applies where R has F4made any payments purporting to be pension contributions under the 2015 scheme (“the purported contributions”) which—

a

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

b

F5were payments which, had R been recognised as a full protection member of a judicial legacy scheme in relation to that service, R would not have been required to pay to the 2015 scheme.

4

F6The purported contributions are to be treated for all purposes—

a

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

b

as having been paid by R instead to 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 pension contributions which are calculated by reference to R’s relevant service, or

b

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

such amount must be paid in accordance with regulation 38.