{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-judicial-pensions-fee-paid-judges-regulations-2017/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-judicial-pensions-fee-paid-judges-regulations-2017/regulation-6.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/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Qualifying judicial service",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations, “qualifying judicial service”, in relation to a member (“P”), means the period during which P holds a judicial office.\n(2) For the purposes of determining P’s qualifying judicial service—\n(a) it does not matter whether P holds a judicial office before or after the commencement day;\n(b) where there is more than one period during which P holds a judicial office, all such periods are to be aggregated;\n(c) where P holds more than one judicial office during any period, the period is to be counted only once;\n(d) any period during which P is an opted-out member of the principal scheme is to be disregarded; and\n(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.",
  "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/6",
    "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."
}