Regulation 123 Purchase of added surviving adult’s pension by active JASAPS members

A notice given under regulation 117(2) by an active JASAPS member (“M”) must specify—

The maximum number of units which an active member may purchase in the JASAPS is the amount which the administrators determine would produce a pension equal to a sum calculated in accordance with the formula—

$$\frac{A\times \left(Y+Z\right)}{45}$$

where—

1. (a)

   A is—

   1. (i)

      where M held a single judicial office on the assumed contribution date, the salary which would have been M’s appropriate annual salary if M had retired on that date;

   2. (ii)

      where M held more than one judicial office on the assumed contribution date, the salary which would have the highest appropriate salary of these offices if M had retired on that date; and

2. (b)

   Y is M’s reckonable service between the date on which M first held eligible fee-paid judicial office (or 7th April 2000 if later) and date on which M reaches M’s assumed retirement age (assuming that M works the number of qualifying fee-paid days notified under paragraph (1)(c)) expressed in years and fractions of a year to four decimal places;

3. (c)

   Z is—

   1. (i)

      if M is purchasing added years, the number of added years which M would have purchased by the date on which M reaches M’s assumed retirement age, or

   2. (ii)

      if M is not purchasing added years, nil.

The date on which M is to start payment of periodic contributions (“the periodic contributions start date”) must—