# The Judicial Pensions (Fee-Paid Judges) Regulations 2017, Regulation 3: Judicial office, retirement and partial retirement


(1) In these Regulations—
(a) “judicial office” means an office specified in column 1 of the Schedule (“a specified office”), an office which has been replaced by a specified office, or an office specified in Schedule 1 to the Judicial Pensions and Retirement Act 1993;
(b) “fee-paid judicial office” means a judicial office held by a person whose service in that office is remunerated by the payment of fees (as opposed to the payment of salary).
(2) For the purposes of these Regulations, a fee-paid judicial office held by a person (“P”) is an “eligible fee-paid judicial office” if P satisfies the conditions for membership of the principal scheme under regulation 8(1) or (5) (members) in respect of that office.
(3) For the purposes of these Regulations, P “retires” at the time when P, having held one or more judicial offices—
(a) ceases to hold all such offices, other than by reason of P’s death; and
(b) is not immediately afterwards appointed to another judicial office.
(4) In these Regulations, a reference to a member taking “partial retirement” in respect of a fee-paid judicial office is to the member giving notice in relation to that office under regulation 27(2).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2017/9780111154953/regulation/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-judicial-pensions-fee-paid-judges-regulations-2017/regulation-3
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