{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-additional-voluntary-contributions-regulations-1995/regulation-4.2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-additional-voluntary-contributions-regulations-1995/regulation-4.2.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/4.2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4.2",
  "heading": "Membership",
  "text": "(1) Membership of the JAYS and the JASSPS shall be open to any person to whom Part I of the 1993 Act applies.\n(2) A member of the JAYS shall, subject to the provisions of these regulations, have a right to increase his length of service in qualifying judicial office by the purchase of added years of pension credit.\n(3) A member of the JASSPS shall, subject to the provisions of these regulations, have a right to purchase added units of surviving spouse’s pension during any period in which he currently has a spouse to whom benefits could be paid under the scheme.\n(4) Membership of the JABS shall be open to a person who is a member of an existing scheme except those officers referred to in regulation 2.2(1)(b)(ii) to (vi).\n(5) A member of the JABS shall, subject to the provisions of these regulations, have a right to purchase added units of benefit in his existing scheme.",
  "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/4.2",
    "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."
}