The Judicial Pensions (Fee-Paid Judges) Regulations 2017

Contributions by retired FPJAYS members U.K.

107.—(1) The contribution to the FPJAYS for a retired FPJAYS member (“R”) must be made by lump sum payment to the administrators, within 12 months of the date on which R served notice under regulation 104(2).

(2) The total contribution to the FPJAYS which R must make is to be calculated in accordance with this regulation, subject to the limit on the level of contributions in regulation 108.

(3) Where on the date R retired, R had a spouse, civil partner or qualifying child, the contribution is to be determined in accordance with the formula—

where—

a

A is the relevant benefits figure (see paragraph (4));

b

B is the amount of reckonable service which R accrued [F1 in any office in relation to which benefits are calculated under the post-1995 provisions] in the period beginning with the assumed contribution commencement date and ending with the date on which R retired, calculated in accordance with regulation 5(1) as though paragraph (2) of that regulation does not apply;

c

C is the total of the fees paid to R in respect of qualifying fee-paid days in the period [F2 and for the offices] referred to in B;

d

D is the number of added years R would like to purchase.

(4) The relevant benefits figure is determined by taking the following steps—

Step 1

• Use the salary which would have been R's appropriate annual salary on the assumed contribution commencement date (or if R held more than one eligible fee-paid judicial office on that date, the salary which would have been the highest appropriate annual salary) if R had retired on that date to determine which is the applicable salary group for R specified in Table 1.

Step 2

• From the part of Table 1 for R's salary group, determine which entry in column 1 describes the period referred to in B (ignoring the heading of the column).

Step 3

• Add together the personal benefits and family benefits percentage figures corresponding to the entry in column 1 referred to in Step 2.

(5) Where R did not have a spouse, civil partner or qualifying child at any point in the period beginning with R's assumed contribution commencement date and ending with the date R retired, the contribution is to be determined in accordance with paragraphs (3) and (4) as if Step 3 were— “Use the personal benefits figure corresponding to the entry in column 1 referred to in Step 2”.

(6) Where R did not have a spouse, civil partner or qualifying child on the date on which R retired, but did at some point in the period beginning with the assumed contribution commencement date and ending with the date R retired, the contribution due is to be determined in accordance with the formula

(a) E is the contribution for the period beginning with R's assumed contribution commencement date and ending with the date on which R last had a spouse, civil partner or qualifying child, determined in accordance with paragraphs (3) and (4), as if in paragraph (3)(c), “C” refers to the total of fees paid to R in respect of qualifying fee-paid days in that period;

(b) F is the contribution for the period beginning with the day after the date R last had a spouse, civil partner or qualifying child (“the start date”) and ending with the date R retired, determined in accordance with paragraph (5) as if the period referred to in paragraph (3)(c) as applied in paragraph (5) started on the start date.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in reg. 107(3)(b) inserted (1.4.2023) by The Judicial Pensions (Fee-Paid Judges) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/403), regs. 1(1), 49(a)

F2 Words in reg. 107(3)(c) inserted (1.4.2023) by The Judicial Pensions (Fee-Paid Judges) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/403), regs. 1(1), 49(b)