{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-act-1981/section-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-act-1981/section-9.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1981/20",
  "legislation_title": "Judicial Pensions Act 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-act-1981",
  "path": "section/9",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Judge Advocate General: special provision.",
  "text": "(1) A person to whom this section applies may be granted a pension if he retires after not less than 2 years service and at the time of his retirement—\n(a) he has attained the age of 60, or\n(b) he is disabled by a permanent infirmity from performing the functions of his office.\n(2) The annual rate of a pension payable under this section to a person retiring after not less than 15 years service shall be one half of his last annual salary.\n(3) The annual rate of a pension payable under this section to a person retiring after less than 15 years service (but not less than 5) shall be one quarter of his last annual salary plus 1/40th for each completed year of service exceeding 5.\n(3A) The annual rate of pension payable under this section to a person retiring after less than 5 (but not less than 2) years service shall be 6/80ths of his last annual salary.\n(4) Part III of Schedule 1 to this Act (injury or disease sustained in course of duty) shall have effect—\n(a) as if references to an officer to whom that Schedule applies included references to a person to whom this section applies, and\n(b) as if, in relation to an allowance granted under the said Part III to a person to whom this section applies paragraph 16(1)(a) referred to a pension under this section.\n(5) In this section “service” means service as Judge Advocate General.",
  "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)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 9(3A) inserted by Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41, SIF 76:1), s. 83(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1981/20/section/9",
    "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."
}