{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-judicial-pensions-fee-paid-judges-regulations-2017/regulation-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-judicial-pensions-fee-paid-judges-regulations-2017/regulation-15.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2017/9780111154953",
  "legislation_title": "The Judicial Pensions (Fee-Paid Judges) Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-judicial-pensions-fee-paid-judges-regulations-2017",
  "path": "regulation/15",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Retirement under age of 60 on removal from judicial office: entitlement to reduced pension",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies where—\n(a) a member (“P”) retires (whether before, on or after the commencement day) by virtue of having been removed from all judicial offices held by P;\n(b) on the day on which P retires, P has not reached the age of 60; and\n(c) the appropriate Minister recommends to the administrators that P’s accrued rights under the principal scheme be given immediate effect.\n(2) The administrators must notify P of the recommendation under paragraph (1)(c).\n(3) If P elects in writing to the administrators within 3 months of receiving the notice that P wishes to receive benefits under this regulation—\n(a) P becomes entitled, on the day on which the administrators receive the election, to the payment for life of a pension; and\n(b) P also becomes entitled, on that day, to the amount P would have been entitled to if P had been entitled under this regulation to the payment of a pension in respect of the period beginning with the pension start day and ending with the day before the day mentioned in sub-paragraph (a).\n(4) In this regulation “the pension start day” means—\n(a) the day after that on which P retires; or\n(b) if later, the commencement day.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2017/9780111154953/regulation/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:06:45.104334+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."
}