{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-act-1981/section-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-act-1981/section-8.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1981/20",
  "legislation_title": "Judicial Pensions Act 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-act-1981",
  "path": "section/8",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Judge Advocate General: choice between civil service scheme and special provision.",
  "text": "(1) Section 9 below shall apply to a person holding the office of Judge Advocate General if within 3 months after appointment to that office he gives notice in writing to the Treasury that he elects that section 9 shall apply to him.\n(2) In the case of a person who holds the office of Judge Advocate General, but to whom section 9 below does not apply, the principal civil service pension scheme shall have effect as if service in that office were employment in the civil service of the State.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words substituted by Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41, SIF 76:1), s. 83(1)(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1981/20/section/8",
    "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."
}