{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-act-1981/section-29B",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-act-1981/section-29B.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1981/20",
  "legislation_title": "Judicial Pensions Act 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-act-1981",
  "path": "section/29B",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "29B",
  "heading": "Pension credits: restriction on payments",
  "text": "(1) The appropriate Minister shall have no power to accept, for the benefit of a member of a judicial pension scheme constituted under or by virtue of this Act—\n(a) a payment under paragraph 1(3) of Schedule 5 to the Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999,\n(b) a payment under section 95 of the Pension Schemes Act 1993 , or\n(c) any other payment,\nto the extent that that payment directly or indirectly represents a pension credit.\n(2) In this section “the appropriate Minister” means—\n(a) in relation to any judicial office whose jurisdiction is exercised exclusively in relation to Scotland, the Secretary of State; or\n(b) subject to paragraph (a), the Lord Chancellor.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 29B inserted (1.12.2000) by S.I. 2000/2985, reg. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "1993 c. 48."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1981/20/section/29B",
    "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."
}