{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-judicial-pensions-fee-paid-judges-regulations-2017/regulation-2",
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  "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/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“the 1995 Regulations” means the Judicial Pensions (Additional Voluntary Contributions) Regulations 1995;\n“the 2017 schemes” means the principal scheme, the JAVC scheme, the FPJAYS and the JASAPS;\n“the JAVC scheme” has the meaning given by regulation 90;\n“the FPJAYS” means the Fee-Paid Judicial Added Years Scheme constituted by Part 13;\n“the JASAPS” means the Fee-Paid Judicial Added Surviving Adult’s Pension Scheme constituted by Part 14;\n“active member” has the meaning given by regulation 9;\n“the administrators” means the administrators entrusted with the administration of the scheme constituted by Part 1 of the Judicial Pensions and Retirement Act 1993;\n“appropriate annual salary” has the meaning given by regulation 7;\n“benefits” means any pension or lump sum payable under the principal scheme except where the context otherwise requires;\n“benefit crystallisation event” has the meaning given by section 216 of the Finance Act 2004;\n“the commencement day” means the date on which these Regulations come into force;\n“eligible child” has the meaning given by regulation 40;\n“eligible fee-paid judicial office” has the meaning given by regulation 3(2);\n“fee-paid judicial office” has the meaning given by regulation 3(1);\n“guaranteed minimum pension” has the meaning given in paragraph 1(1) of Schedule 2 to the Judicial Pensions and Retirement Act 1993;\n“the ill-health certification condition” has the meaning given by regulation 23;\n“the interim payments amount” has the meaning given by regulation 49;\n“judicial office” has the meaning given by regulation 3(1);\n“lifetime allowance charge” has the meaning given by section 214 of the Finance Act 2004;\n“member” means a person who is a member of the principal scheme under regulation 8;\n“normal pension age” means (except in Part 11) age 65, or the age of a member on the date on which that member has completed in aggregate at least 5 years’ qualifying judicial service if that date is later than the date on which the member attains the age of 65;\n“opted-out member” has the meaning given by regulation 9;\n“partial retirement” has the meaning given by regulation 3(4);\n“permitted maximum” has the meaning given in section 3(3A) of the Judicial Pensions and Retirement Act 1993;\n“the principal scheme” means the scheme constituted by Parts 1 to 11 of these Regulations;\n“qualifying child” in relation to a member means a child who would be an eligible child if the member were dead;\n“qualifying fee-paid day” has the meaning given by regulation 4;\n“qualifying fee-paid service” has the meaning given by regulation 4;\n“qualifying judicial service” has the meaning given by regulation 6;\n“reckonable service” has the meaning given by regulation 5;\n“registered pension scheme” means a pension scheme that is a registered pension scheme under Chapter 2 of Part 4 of the Finance Act 2004;\n“retires” has the meaning given by regulation 3(3) and cognate expressions are to be construed accordingly;\n“surviving adult” has the meaning given by regulation 35(a);\n“surviving adult’s pension” has the meaning given by regulation 35(d);\n“surviving civil partner” has the meaning given by regulation 35(c);\n“surviving spouse” has the meaning given by regulation 35(b);\n“tax year” has the meaning given in section 4(2) of the Income Tax Act 2007.\n(2) Where a calculation performed under these Regulations—\n(a) results in an amount containing a fraction of £1, the amount is to be rounded up to the next whole £1,\n(b) results in a period containing a fraction of a year, the period is to be given to four decimal places.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1995/639;"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2004 c.12. Section 216 was amended by paragraphs 31 and 42 of Schedule 10 to the Finance Act 2005 (c.7); paragraph 30 of Schedule 23 to the Finance Act 2006 (c.25); paragraphs 1, 4 and 5 of Schedule 29 to the Finance Act 2008 (c.9); paragraphs 62 and 73 of Schedule 16 to the Finance Act 2011 (c.11); paragraph 16 of Schedule 1 and paragraph 21 of Schedule 2 to the Taxation of Pensions Act 2014 (c.30); paragraph 4 of Schedule 4 to the Finance Act 2015 (c.11)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "The definition of “guaranteed minimum pension” in Schedule 2 to the Judicial Pensions and Retirement Act 1993 was amended by paragraph 46 of Schedule 8 to the Pension Schemes Act 1993 (c.48), and paragraph 43 to Schedule 7 to the Pension Schemes (Northern Ireland) Act 1993 (c.49)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Subsection (3A) was inserted, with subsections (3B) to (3E), by S.I. 2006/497."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "2004 c. 12."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "2007 c. 3."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2017/9780111154953/regulation/2",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}