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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-act-1981/schedule-2/paragraph-15",
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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/2/paragraph/15",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph 28 below, this paragraph applies in relation to a person in whose case an election is in force under section 10(4)(b) of the Administration of Justice Act 1973 (election by person serving on 18 April 1973 not to accept the provisions of that section).\n(2) For the purposes of this Part of this Schedule that person shall be treated as if his relevant service was wholly before 18 April 1973.\n(3) For the purposes of this paragraph, there shall be left out of account any period of service during which an election under section 14A is in force in respect of a person, and no contribution towards a widow’s and children’s pension shall be made by that person for that period.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words inserted (1.1.1992) by Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41, SIF 76:1), s. 125(3), Sch. 18 para. 34; S.I. 1991/2730, art. 2,Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 15(3) inserted by S.I. 1988/1417, reg. 3, Sch. para. 3(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1973 c. 15."
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1981/20/schedule/2/paragraph/15",
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  "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."
}