# The Judicial Pensions (Fee-Paid Judges) Regulations 2017, Regulation 15: Retirement under age of 60 on removal from judicial office: entitlement to reduced pension


(1) This regulation applies where—
(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;
(b) on the day on which P retires, P has not reached the age of 60; and
(c) the appropriate Minister recommends to the administrators that P’s accrued rights under the principal scheme be given immediate effect.
(2) The administrators must notify P of the recommendation under paragraph (1)(c).
(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—
(a) P becomes entitled, on the day on which the administrators receive the election, to the payment for life of a pension; and
(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).
(4) In this regulation “the pension start day” means—
(a) the day after that on which P retires; or
(b) if later, the commencement day.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2017/9780111154953/regulation/15 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-judicial-pensions-fee-paid-judges-regulations-2017/regulation-15
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