{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-act-1981/schedule-1A/paragraph-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-act-1981/schedule-1A/paragraph-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1981/20",
  "legislation_title": "Judicial Pensions Act 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-act-1981",
  "path": "schedule/1A/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) When his qualifying service ends, a qualifying member acquires a right to the cash equivalent at the relevant date of any benefits—\n(a) which have accrued to, or in respect of him, under the scheme; or\n(b) where service of his in judicial office is disregarded service, which would have so accrued if his service in judicial office had ended on the same date as that on which his qualifying service ended.\n(2) In this paragraph “the relevant date” means—\n(a) the date when the qualifying member’s qualifying service ends; or\n(b) the date of any application which he has made under paragraph 6 and which has not been withdrawn,\nwhichever is the later.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/3325",
      "affecting_title": "The Civil Partnership (Judicial Pensions and Church Pensions, etc.) Order 2005"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1981/20/schedule/1A/paragraph/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-06T03:34:32.904059+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."
}