{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-act-1981/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-act-1981/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1981/20",
  "legislation_title": "Judicial Pensions Act 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-act-1981",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Interpretation.",
  "text": "In this Chapter “high judicial office” means any of the offices listed in the first column of the Table below, and “relevant service”, in relation to high judicial office, has the meaning given in the second column of that Table.\nTable\nOffice\nRelevant service\nJudge of the Supreme Court.\nService as a judge of the Supreme Court or as a judge of the Senior Courts, the Court of Session or the Court of Judicature.\nJudge of the Senior Courts. . . .\nService as a judge of the Supreme Court or as any judge of the Senior Courts.\nJudge of the Court of Session.\nService as a judge of the Supreme Court or as any judge of the Court of Session.\nJudge of the Court of Judicature.\nService as a judge of the Supreme Court or as any judge of the Court of Judicature.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 1: words in table entry substituted (1.10.2009) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 37(1)(a), 148(1); S.I. 2009/1604, art. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 1: words in table entries substituted (1.10.2009) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 37(1)(b), 148(1); S.I. 2009/1604, art. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 1: words in table entries substituted (1.10.2009) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 59(5), 148(1), Sch. 11 para. 25(2)(a); S.I. 2009/1604, art. 2(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 1: words in table entries substituted (1.10.2009) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 59(5), 148(1), Sch. 11 para. 25(2)(b); S.I. 2009/1604, art. 2(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 1: words in table entry repealed (3.4.2006) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 15(1), 146, 148(1), Sch. 4 para. 110, Sch. 18 Pt. 2; S.I. 2006/1014, art. 2(a), Sch. 1 paras. 11(e), 30(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1981/20/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:14:16.188680+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."
}