Regulation 6 Qualifying judicial service

(1)

In these Regulations, “qualifying judicial service”, in relation to a member (“P”), means the period during which P holds a judicial office.

(2)

For the purposes of determining P’s qualifying judicial service—

(a)

it does not matter whether P holds a judicial office before or after the commencement day;

(b)

where there is more than one period during which P holds a judicial office, all such periods are to be aggregated;

(c)

where P holds more than one judicial office during any period, the period is to be counted only once;

(d)

any period during which P is an opted-out member of the principal scheme is to be disregarded; and

(e)

any period during which P held a fee-paid judicial office which is not an eligible fee-paid judicial office is to be disregarded.