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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-act-1981/schedule-1A/paragraph-7",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1981/20",
  "legislation_title": "Judicial Pensions Act 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-act-1981",
  "path": "schedule/1A/paragraph/7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Cash equivalents are to be calculated and verified in the prescribed manner.\n(2) Regulations made under sub-paragraph (1) may, in particular, provide—\n(a) that in calculating cash equivalents account shall be taken—\n(i) of any surrender or forfeiture of the whole or part of a qualifying member’s pension which occurs before the Treasury does what is needed to comply with the choice made by him in exercising his option;\n(ii) in a case where paragraph 6(6) applies, of the need to deduct an appropriate amount to provide a guaranteed minimum pension or give effect to protected rights; and\n(b) that in prescribed circumstances a qualifying member’s cash equivalent shall be increased or reduced.\n(3) Without prejudice to the generality of sub-paragraph (2), the circumstances that may be specified by virtue of paragraph (b) of that sub-paragraph include the length of time which elapses between the termination of a qualifying member’s qualifying service and his exercise of the option conferred by paragraph 6.",
  "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/7",
    "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."
}