{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-additional-voluntary-contributions-regulations-1995/regulation-4.11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-additional-voluntary-contributions-regulations-1995/regulation-4.11.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/639",
  "legislation_title": "The Judicial Pensions (Additional Voluntary Contributions) Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-additional-voluntary-contributions-regulations-1995",
  "path": "regulation/4.11",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4.11",
  "heading": "Valuation of Benefits under the JASSPS",
  "text": "(1) Where a member has purchased added units of surviving spouse’s pension his surviving spouse shall be entitled to receive additional pension under the scheme constituted by Part 1 of the 1993 Act.\n(2) The annual amount of additional pension per unit shall be£1,000 together with increases in line with the Index from the earlier of the member’s assumed retirement age or his death.\n(3) Such additional pension shall be payable at the same times and intervals and in the same manner as the surviving spouse’s pension under section 5 of the 1993 Act.\n(4) If a member retires on the ground of ill-health or dies before the assumed retirement age he shall be credited with the number of units of surviving spouse’s pension for which he is paying contributions, provided that where —\n(a) he dies or is retired on the ground of ill-health within twelve months of the date of contracting to purchase added units of surviving spouse’s pension, or\n(b) he dies or is retired on the ground of ill-health because of an incapacity to which he became subject within twelve months of that date,\nthe administrators are satisfied that the declaration given in accordance with regulation 4.6(2) as applied by regulation 4.7(1), was made in good faith.\n(5) If a member ceases making contributions before the assumed retirement age for reasons other than death or retirement on the ground of ill-health then, at the date he so ceases he shall be credited with added units of surviving spouse’s pension in accordance with the formula A × (B/C) where —\n(a) A is the number of added units of surviving spouse’s pension for which he had contracted to pay contributions;\n(b) B is the number of months contributions which he has paid for those added units; and\n(c) C is the number of months contributions which he would have paid for those added units if he had continued in service until the assumed retirement age.\n(6) If a member who has ceased to participate in the scheme under paragraph (5), subsequently starts to pay contributions again, this regulation and regulations 4.7 and 4.13 shall apply separately to these contributions and the value of surviving spouse’s pension purchased with them.\n(7) For the purposes of this regulation, part added units of surviving spouse’s pension purchased by a member shall be valued on a pro-rata basis.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/3325",
      "affecting_title": "The Civil Partnership (Judicial Pensions and Church Pensions, etc.) Order 2005"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/3325",
      "affecting_title": "The Civil Partnership (Judicial Pensions and Church Pensions, etc.) Order 2005"
    },
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "uksi/2006/747",
      "affecting_title": "The Judicial Pensions (Additional Voluntary Contributions) (Amendment) Regulations 2006"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/639/regulation/4.11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:13:51.165314+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."
}