<Legislation xmlns="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/namespaces/legislation" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/76" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisr/2015/76" NumberOfProvisions="242" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/namespaces/legislation http://www.legislation.gov.uk/schema/legislation.xsd" SchemaVersion="1.0" RestrictExtent="N.I." RestrictStartDate="2024-05-24"><ukm:Metadata xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:dct="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:ukm="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/namespaces/metadata">
					<dc:identifier>http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/76/section/33</dc:identifier><dc:title>The Judicial Pensions Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015</dc:title><dc:type>text</dc:type><dc:format>text/xml</dc:format><dc:language>en</dc:language><dc:publisher>Statute Law Database</dc:publisher><dc:subject scheme="SIheading">PUBLIC SERVICE PENSIONS</dc:subject><dc:modified>2026-06-08</dc:modified><dc:contributor>Expert Participation</dc:contributor><dct:valid>2024-05-24</dct:valid>
					<dc:description>Part 2 of these Regulations establishes a scheme for the payment of pensions and other benefits to members of the judiciary. The scheme so established is a career average revalued earnings scheme.</dc:description>
					<atom:link rel="self" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/76/section/33/data.xml" type="application/xml"/><atom:link rel="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/def/navigation/resources" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/76/resources" title="More Resources"/>
					
					
					
					<atom:link rel="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/def/navigation/act" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/76" title="whole act"/><atom:link rel="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/def/navigation/introduction" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/76/introduction" title="introduction"/><atom:link rel="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/def/navigation/signature" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/76/signature" title="signature"/><atom:link rel="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/def/navigation/note" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/76/note" title="note"/>
					<atom:link rel="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/def/navigation/body" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/76/body" title="body"/>
					<atom:link rel="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/def/navigation/schedules" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/76/schedules" title="schedules"/>
					
										
					
					
					
					<atom:link rel="alternate" type="application/rdf+xml" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/76/section/33/data.rdf" title="RDF/XML"/><atom:link rel="alternate" type="application/akn+xml" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/76/section/33/data.akn" title="AKN"/><atom:link rel="alternate" type="application/xhtml+xml" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/76/section/33/data.xht" title="HTML snippet"/><atom:link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/76/section/33/data.htm" title="Website (XHTML) Default View"/><atom:link rel="alternate" type="text/csv" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/76/section/33/data.csv" title="CSV"/><atom:link rel="alternate" type="application/pdf" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/76/section/33/data.pdf" title="PDF"/>
					<atom:link rel="alternate" type="application/akn+xhtml" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/76/section/33/data.html" title="HTML5 snippet"/>

					
					<atom:link rel="http://purl.org/dc/terms/tableOfContents" hreflang="en" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/76/contents" title="Table of Contents"/>
					
					<atom:link rel="http://purl.org/dc/terms/hasVersion" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/76/section/33/2015-02-18" title="2015-02-18"/>
					<atom:link rel="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/def/navigation/supersedes" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nidsr/2015/9780337995699" title="The Judicial Pensions Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015"/>
					<atom:link rel="up" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/76" title="Entire legislation"/><atom:link rel="prev" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/76/section/32" title="Provision; Section 32"/><atom:link rel="prevInForce" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/76/section/32" title="Provision; Section 32"/><atom:link rel="next" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/76/section/34" title="Provision; Section 34"/><atom:link rel="nextInForce" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/76/section/34" title="Provision; Section 34"/>
					<ukm:SecondaryMetadata><ukm:DocumentClassification><ukm:DocumentCategory Value="secondary"/><ukm:DocumentMainType Value="NorthernIrelandStatutoryRule"/><ukm:DocumentStatus Value="revised"/><ukm:DocumentMinorType Value="unknown"/></ukm:DocumentClassification><ukm:Year Value="2015"/><ukm:Number Value="76"/><ukm:Made Date="2015-02-18"/><ukm:ISBN Value="urn:isbn9780337996306"/></ukm:SecondaryMetadata>
					<ukm:Supersedes URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nidsr/2015/9780337995699"><dc:title>The Judicial Pensions Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015</dc:title><ukm:DocumentMainType Value="NorthernIrelandDraftStatutoryRule"/><ukm:Year Value="2015"/><ukm:ISBN Value="9780337995699"/></ukm:Supersedes>

                    
									 
					<ukm:Alternatives><ukm:Alternative URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/76/pdfs/nisr_20150076_en.pdf" Date="2015-02-25" Size="812364"/></ukm:Alternatives>
					
					<ukm:Statistics>
									<ukm:TotalParagraphs Value="242"/>
									<ukm:BodyParagraphs Value="170"/>
									<ukm:ScheduleParagraphs Value="72"/>
									<ukm:AttachmentParagraphs Value="0"/>
									<ukm:TotalImages Value="6"/>
								</ukm:Statistics>
				</ukm:Metadata><Secondary><Body DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/76/body" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisr/2015/76/body" NumberOfProvisions="170" RestrictStartDate="2024-05-24"><Part DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/76/part/5" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisr/2015/76/part/5" NumberOfProvisions="31" id="part-5" RestrictStartDate="2024-05-24"><Number>
          <Strong>PART 5</Strong>
        </Number><Title>Pension accounts</Title><Chapter DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/76/part/5/chapter/3" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisr/2015/76/part/5/chapter/3" NumberOfProvisions="2" RestrictStartDate="2015-02-18" id="part-5-chapter-3"><Number>CHAPTER 3</Number><Title>Calculation of accrued pension</Title><P1group RestrictStartDate="2015-02-18"><Title>Calculation of amount of accrued pension for purpose of partial retirement</Title><P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/76/section/33" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisr/2015/76/section/33" id="section-33"><Pnumber>33</Pnumber><P1para><P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/76/section/33/1" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisr/2015/76/section/33/1" id="section-33-1"><Pnumber>1</Pnumber><P2para><Text>For the purpose of calculating the amount of a description of partial retirement pension, the amount of accrued pension is an amount calculated in accordance with this regulation.</Text></P2para></P2><P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/76/section/33/2" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisr/2015/76/section/33/2" id="section-33-2"><Pnumber>2</Pnumber><P2para><Text>The amount of accrued standard earned pension is the option proportion of the total of the following amounts specified in the active member's account as at the end of the relevant last day—</Text><P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/76/section/33/2/a" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisr/2015/76/section/33/2/a" id="section-33-2-a"><Pnumber>a</Pnumber><P3para><Text>the sum of the opening balance of standard earned pension for the leaving year and the index adjustment for that opening balance;</Text></P3para></P3><P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/76/section/33/2/b" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisr/2015/76/section/33/2/b" id="section-33-2-b"><Pnumber>b</Pnumber><P3para><Text>the amount of standard earned pension for the leaving year;</Text></P3para></P3><P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/76/section/33/2/c" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisr/2015/76/section/33/2/c" id="section-33-2-c"><Pnumber>c</Pnumber><P3para><Text>the sum of the opening balance of transferred pension for the leaving year and the index adjustment for that opening balance; and</Text></P3para></P3><P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/76/section/33/2/d" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisr/2015/76/section/33/2/d" id="section-33-2-d"><Pnumber>d</Pnumber><P3para><Text>the amount of transferred pension for the leaving year.</Text></P3para></P3></P2para></P2><P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/76/section/33/3" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisr/2015/76/section/33/3" id="section-33-3"><Pnumber>3</Pnumber><P2para><Text>The amount of accrued earned pension attributable to an effective pension age option is the option proportion of the total of the following amounts specified in the active member's account as at the end of the relevant last day—</Text><P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/76/section/33/3/a" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisr/2015/76/section/33/3/a" id="section-33-3-a"><Pnumber>a</Pnumber><P3para><Text>the sum of the opening balance of earned pension attributable to that option for the leaving year and the index adjustment for that opening balance; and</Text></P3para></P3><P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/76/section/33/3/b" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisr/2015/76/section/33/3/b" id="section-33-3-b"><Pnumber>b</Pnumber><P3para><Text>the amount of earned pension attributable to that option for the leaving year.</Text></P3para></P3></P2para></P2><P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/76/section/33/4" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisr/2015/76/section/33/4" id="section-33-4"><Pnumber>4</Pnumber><P2para><Text>The amount of any description of accrued added pension is the option proportion of the total of the following amounts specified in the active member's account as at the end of the relevant last day—</Text><P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/76/section/33/4/a" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisr/2015/76/section/33/4/a" id="section-33-4-a"><Pnumber>a</Pnumber><P3para><Text>the sum of the opening balance of added pension of that description for the leaving year and the index adjustment for that opening balance; and</Text></P3para></P3><P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/76/section/33/4/b" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisr/2015/76/section/33/4/b" id="section-33-4-b"><Pnumber>b</Pnumber><P3para><Text>the amount of added pension of that description for the leaving year.</Text></P3para></P3></P2para></P2></P1para></P1></P1group></Chapter></Part></Body></Secondary></Legislation>