{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-additional-voluntary-contributions-amendment-regulations-1996/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-additional-voluntary-contributions-amendment-regulations-1996/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/52",
  "legislation_title": "The Judicial Pensions (Additional Voluntary Contributions) (Amendment) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-additional-voluntary-contributions-amendment-regulations-1996",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Judicial Pensions (Additional Voluntary Contributions) Regulations 1995. They provide for—\n(a) the further application of Inland Revenue limits to the amount of additional benefits which may be purchased;\n(b) the provision of additional children’s pension in return for the purchase of added units of benefit under the Judicial Added Benefits Scheme;\n(c) a revised basis for calculating the cost of contributions to purchase a surviving spouse’s pension under the Judicial Added Surviving Spouse’s Pension Scheme; and\n(d) for administrative expenses incurred by the authorised provider to be deducted from voluntary contributions received.\nThe opportunity is taken to correct some errors in and omissions from the earlier Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/52/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:54:36.947439+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."
}