{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-compensation-to-officers-regulations-1971/regulation-15",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1971/2008",
  "legislation_title": "The Courts (Compensation to Officers) Regulations 1971",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-compensation-to-officers-regulations-1971",
  "path": "regulation/15",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Amount of long-term compensation payable for loss of emoluments",
  "text": "(1) Long-term compensation for loss of emoluments shall, subject to the provisions of these Regulations, be payable until the normal retiring age or death of a person to whom it is payable, whichever first occurs, and shall not exceed a maximum annual sum calculated in accordance with the provisions of paragraphs (2) to (4)\n(2) The said maximum annual sum shall, subject as hereinafter provided, be the aggregate of the following sums, namely—\n(a) for every year of the person's reckonable service, one sixtieth of the net emoluments which he has lost; and\n(b) in the case of a person who has attained the age of forty years at the date of the loss, a sum calculated in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (3) appropriate to his age at that date,\nbut the said maximum annual sum shall in no case exceed two-thirds of the net emoluments which the person has lost.\n(3) The sum referred to in paragraph (2)(b) shall be—\n(a) in the case of a person who has attained the age of forty years but has not attained the age of fifty years at the date of the loss, the following fraction of the net emoluments which he has lost—\n(i) where his reckonable service is less than ten years, one sixtieth for each year of such service, after attaining the age of forty years; or\n(ii) where his reckonable service amounts to ten years but is less than fifteen years, one sixtieth for each year of such service after attaining the age of forty years and one additional sixtieth; or\n(iii) where his reckonable service amounts to fifteen years but is less than twenty years, one sixtieth for each year of such service after attaining the age of forty years and two additional sixtieths; or\n(iv) where his reckonable service amounts to twenty years or more, one sixtieth for each year of such service after attaining the age of forty years and three additional sixtieths;\nbut the sum so calculated shall not in any case exceed one sixth of the said net emoluments;\n(b) in the case of a person who has attained the age of fifty years but has not attained the age of sixty years at the date of the loss, one sixtieth of the said net emoluments for each year of his reckonable service after attaining the age of forty years, up to a maximum of fifteen such years; and\n(c) in the case of a person who has attained the age of sixty years at the date of the loss, one sixtieth of the said net emoluments for each year of his reckonable service after attaining the age of forty-five years.\n(4) Where a person has become entitled (whether immediately or prospectively on attaining some greater age) to a superannuation benefit by way of annual amounts under a pension scheme associated with the employment which he has lost, the maximum annual sum referred to in paragraph (1) shall be the maximum sum calculated under paragraphs (2) and (3) as if he had not become so entitled.\n(5) Where long-term compensation is payable in respect of any period and resettlement compensation is also payable in respect of that period, the long-term compensation shall be limited to the amount (if any) by which it exceeds the resettlement compensation payable as aforesaid.\n(6) Long-term compensation shall be payable to a person at intervals equivalent to those at which the emoluments of his employment were previously paid or at such other intervals as may be agreed between the person and the compensating authority.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1971/2008/regulation/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T22:37:25.015994+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}