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					<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>
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          <Strong>PART 6</Strong>
        </Number><Title>Retirement benefits</Title><Chapter DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/76/part/6/chapter/3" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisr/2015/76/part/6/chapter/3" NumberOfProvisions="6" id="part-6-chapter-3" RestrictStartDate="2022-04-01"><Number>CHAPTER 3</Number><Title>Partial retirement benefits</Title><P1group RestrictStartDate="2022-04-01"><Title>Annual rate of full retirement pension</Title><P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/76/section/65" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisr/2015/76/section/65" id="section-65"><Pnumber>65</Pnumber><P1para><P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/76/section/65/1" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisr/2015/76/section/65/1" id="section-65-1"><Pnumber>1</Pnumber><P2para><Text>This regulation applies if an active member of this scheme (P) exercises the partial retirement option in respect of the whole of P's accrued pensions  <Addition ChangeId="key-80b91821b0af2b73e23dc38d4830f23f-1665741428096" CommentaryRef="key-80b91821b0af2b73e23dc38d4830f23f">in the office from which P is taking partial retirement.</Addition> .</Text></P2para></P2><P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/76/section/65/2" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisr/2015/76/section/65/2" id="section-65-2"><Pnumber>2</Pnumber><P2para><Text>The annual rate of each description of full retirement pension is calculated under regulation 57 by reference to the amount of that description of full retirement pension specified in the full retirement account.</Text></P2para></P2><P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/76/section/65/3" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisr/2015/76/section/65/3" id="section-65-3"><Pnumber>3</Pnumber><P2para><Text>Regulation 57 applies as if the last day of pensionable service were the day before the day on which the member exercised the partial retirement option.</Text></P2para></P2></P1para></P1></P1group></Chapter></Part></Body></Secondary><Commentaries><Commentary id="key-80b91821b0af2b73e23dc38d4830f23f" Type="F"><Para><Text>Words in <CitationSubRef id="cqumln824-00006" SectionRef="regulation-65-1" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisr/2015/76/regulation/65/1">reg. 65(1)</CitationSubRef> inserted (1.4.2022) by <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisr/2022/73" id="cqumln824-00007" Class="NorthernIrelandStatutoryRule" Year="2022" Number="73" Title="The Judicial Pensions (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022">The Judicial Pensions (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022 (S.R. 2022/73)</Citation>, <CitationSubRef CitationRef="cqumln824-00007" id="cqumln824-00008" SectionRef="regulation-1-2" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisr/2022/73/regulation/1/2">regs. 1(2)</CitationSubRef>, <CitationSubRef CitationRef="cqumln824-00007" id="cqumln824-00009" SectionRef="regulation-3-10" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisr/2022/73/regulation/3/10" Operative="true">3(10)</CitationSubRef></Text></Para></Commentary></Commentaries></Legislation>