Statutory Instruments
Public Service Pensions
Made
13th March 2017
Coming into force in accordance with regulation 1(2)
The Secretary of State makes these Regulations in exercise of the power conferred by section 83 of the Pension Schemes Act 2015(1).
In accordance with section 84(2)(c) of that Act a draft of this instrument has been laid before and approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament.
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Pension Schemes Act 2015 (Judicial Pensions) (Consequential Provision) Regulations 2017.
(2) These Regulations come into force on the day after the day on which they are made.
2. In section 30 of the Public Service Pensions Act 2013(2) (requirements for new public body pension schemes) in subsection (5), in the definition of “public body pension scheme”, after “an existing scheme” insert “or a scheme established under section 18A of the Judicial Pensions and Retirement Act 1993”(3).
Elizabeth Truss
Secretary of State
Ministry of Justice
13th March 2017
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations make a consequential amendment to section 30 of the Public Service Pensions Act 2013 (c.25) (“the 2013 Act”) following the enactment of section 18A of the Judicial Pensions and Retirement Act 1993 (c.8) (“the 1993 Act”). That power enables the creation of a pension scheme for fee-paid judges including, in particular, making provision corresponding or similar to that made by or under Part 1 or section 20 of, or Schedules 2 or 2A to, the 1993 Act for salaried judges. Section 18A was inserted by section 78 of the Pension Schemes Act 2015 (c.8). This amendment will ensure that the relationship between the 2013 Act and a scheme created under section 18A of the 1993 Act will be the same as the relationship between the 2013 Act and other judicial pension schemes established by or under the 1993 Act.