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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-additional-voluntary-contributions-regulations-1995-amendment-regulations-2017/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-additional-voluntary-contributions-regulations-1995-amendment-regulations-2017/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2017/208",
  "legislation_title": "The Judicial Pensions (Additional Voluntary Contributions) Regulations 1995 (Amendment) Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-additional-voluntary-contributions-regulations-1995-amendment-regulations-2017",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Additional Voluntary Contribution scheme in Part 2 of the Judicial Pensions (Additional Voluntary Contributions) Regulations 1995 (S.I. 1995/639) to–\ninsert a definition of accrued benefits (regulation 3(a));\nincrease the ways in which members may contribute to the scheme (regulations 4, 5 and 6);\nremove certain limits on the level of members’ contributions (regulation 4);\nmake it compulsory that the member elects that his or her contributions be paid into particular types of investments (regulation 7);\nallow transfers in to the scheme from a qualifying recognised overseas pension scheme (regulation 8 and a definition of “qualifying recognised overseas pension scheme” is inserted by regulation 3(b));\nextend the range of benefits that are payable by reference to that which is permissible under the Finance Act 2004 (c.12) (regulation 9);\nremove the restriction that benefits may only be paid at or after a member’s normal minimum pension age (regulation 9);\nensure that administrative expenses are deducted from the realisable value of the investments made by the administrators with the contributions made by the member (regulation 11).\nA full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sectors is foreseen.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/208/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:14:40.611463+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."
}