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PART 14U.K.THE FEE-PAID JUDICIAL ADDED SURVIVING ADULT'S PENSION SCHEME

CHAPTER 1U.K.INTRODUCTION

InterpretationU.K.

116.  In this Part—

[F1(a)] F2...

“added surviving adult's pension” has the meaning given in regulation 117(3);

“assumed contribution commencement date” has the meaning given in regulation 118(1);

“assumed retirement age” has the meaning given in regulation 118(3);

“assumed retirement date” means the date on which an active JASAPS member reaches the assumed retirement age;

“JASAPS” means the scheme constituted by this Part of the Regulations;

“JASAPS member” means a member of the JASAPS;

“periodic contributions start date” has the meaning given in regulation 123(3);

“retired JASAPS member” means a JASAPS member who has retired from fee-paying judicial office F3...;

“Table 2” means the table in Schedule 2 to the 1995 Regulations F4.

[F5“unretired JASAPS member” means a JASAPS member who continues to hold judicial office.]

[F6(b)in relation to fee-paid days between 1st April 2015 and 31st March 2022, regulation 4 applies for the purposes of this Part as if paragraph (2)(c) were omitted;

(c)references to reckonable service and to qualifying fee-paid days in this Part are to be read as including a reference to fee-paid days in judicial office after 31st March 2022 as if the principal scheme had not been closed to further accruals.]

Textual Amendments

F4S.I. 1995/637. The tables in Schedule 2 were substituted by S.I. 1996/52.

MembershipU.K.

117.—[F7(1) Membership of the JASAPS is open to unretired and retired members of the principal scheme (but not to opted-out members)—

(a)who have service in an eligible fee-paid judicial office between 31st March 1995 and 5th April 2006;

(b)whose benefits under the principal scheme in relation to at least one such office are, or are to be, calculated under the post-1995 provisions; and

(c)who have a spouse or civil partner to whom benefits could be paid under this Part.]

(2) A person to whom membership of the JASAPS is open may become a JASAPS member by giving notice in writing to the administrators within 12 months of the [F8amendment day] (or by such later date as the administrators may agree).

(3) A JASAPS member has the right to purchase added units of surviving adult's pension (“added surviving adult's pension”) in accordance with the provisions of this Part.

Textual Amendments

[F9Deemed JASAPS membership where a 2015 scheme election is madeU.K.

117A.—(1) This regulation applies where—

(a)a person (“P”) has remediable service in an eligible fee-paid judicial office;

(b)P has, during the period of remediable service, paid contributions to purchase added surviving adult’s pension under this Part; and

(c)a 2015 scheme election is made in respect of P.

(2) P is deemed to have been an active JASAPS member in respect of the contributions.]

Textual Amendments

Assumed dates etcU.K.

118.—(1) For the purposes of this Part, a JASAPS member must nominate a date (“the assumed contribution commencement date”) from which contributions are assumed to have been payable in relation to added surviving adult's pension.

(2) The date nominated under paragraph (1) must be no earlier than the date on which the JASAPS member first held an eligible fee-paid judicial office and in any event must be between [F1031st March 1995] and 5th April 2006.

(3) For the purposes of this Part, an [F11unretired] JASAPS member must nominate an age between the age of 60 and the member's compulsory retirement age at which that member intends to retire (“the assumed retirement age”).

Textual Amendments