2000 No. 342
PENSIONS

The Judicial Pensions (Additional Voluntary Contributions) (Amendment) Regulations 2000

Made
Laid before Parliament
Coming into force
The Lord Chancellor, and, in relation to judicial offices whose jurisdiction is exercised exclusively in relation to Scotland, the Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 33A of the Judicial Pensions Act 19811 and sections 10 and 29(3) and (4) of the Judicial Pensions and Retirement Act 19932, and with the concurrence of the Treasury, hereby make the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1.

These Regulations may be cited as the Judicial Pensions (Additional Voluntary Contributions) (Amendment) Regulations 2000 and shall come into force on 20th March 2000.

Interpretation

2.

In these Regulations, a regulation referred to by number alone means the regulation so numbered in the Judicial Pensions (Additional Voluntary Contributions) Regulations 19953.

Amendments to the Judicial Pensions (Additional Voluntary Contributions) Regulations 1995

3.

In regulation 2.9(2)(b), the words “the greater of the annual rate of the member’s salary or of” shall be deleted.

4.

Regulation 2.11 shall stand as paragraph (1) of that regulation and in that paragraph the reference to regulation 2.10 shall be deleted.

5.

The following shall be inserted after regulation 2.11 and shall stand as paragraph (2) of that regulation:

“(2)

Regulation 2.10 shall apply to members who fall within regulation 2.2(1)(b) as if for the reference to regulation 2.7 there were substituted a reference to regulation 2.12.”.

Irvine of Lairg, C.
John Reid,
One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State

We consent

Bob Ainsworth
Jim Dowd
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations make two amendments to the Judicial Pensions (Additional Voluntary Contributions) Regulations 1995 so as to:

(a)

clarify regulation 2.9(2)(b);

(b)

apply the determination of aggregated retirement benefit in regulation 2.12 to those members falling within the scope of regulation 2.2(1)(b).