# The Judicial Pensions (Fee-Paid Judges) Regulations 2017, 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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2017/9780111154953/regulation/6 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-judicial-pensions-fee-paid-judges-regulations-2017/regulation-6
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