{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-judicial-pensions-fee-paid-judges-regulations-2017/regulation-53",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-judicial-pensions-fee-paid-judges-regulations-2017/regulation-53.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/53",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "53",
  "heading": "Liability to pay pre-commencement contributions amount",
  "text": "(1) P must pay to the appropriate Minister an amount (“the pre-commencement contributions amount”), being the sum of—\n(a) the pre-commencement personal contributions amount (see regulation 54), and\n(b) the pre-commencement dependants’ contributions amount (see regulation 55).\n(2) Paragraph (1) is subject to paragraphs (3) and (4).\n(3) P is not required to pay the pre-commencement contributions amount if P—\n(a) retired before the commencement day, and\n(b) had on retirement less than two years qualifying judicial service.\n(4) P is not required to pay so much of the pre-commencement contributions amount as is represented by the amount mentioned in paragraph (1)(b) if P—\n(a) retired before the commencement day,\n(b) was not married or in a civil partnership at any time during the period—\n(i) beginning with the day on which P first held an eligible fee-paid judicial office, and\n(ii) ending with the day on which P retired; and\n(c) did not have a qualifying child at any time during that period.",
  "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/53",
    "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."
}