{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-contributions-amendment-regulations-2006/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-contributions-amendment-regulations-2006/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2006/749",
  "legislation_title": "The Judicial Pensions (Contributions) (Amendment) Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-contributions-amendment-regulations-2006",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Amendments to the Judicial Pensions (Widowers' and Children’s Benefits) Regulations 1991",
  "text": "(1) In regulation 8(2) (Election to make periodical payments), in sub-paragraph (a), for “4 per cent”, substitute “2.4%”.\n(2) In regulation 8(2), in sub-paragraph (b), for “3 per cent”, substitute “1.8%”.\n(3) For regulation 8(4) substitute—\n“(4) Subject to paragraphs (7) and (8), an election made under this regulation shall be irrevocable.”\n(4) After regulation 8(6) insert—\n“(7) An office-holder who ceases to be married or who ceases to be a civil partner after having made an election under this regulation may revoke his election by notice in writing to the responsible authority not later than six months after his so ceasing.\n(8) Without prejudice to paragraph 8(7), an office-holder who is making periodical payments may on a single occasion and regardless of his marital or civil partnership status revoke his election to pay periodical payments by notifying the responsible authority in writing that he wishes to do so.\n(9) A revocation made under paragraph (7) or (8) shall not prevent an office-holder from subsequently electing to make periodical payments in accordance with paragraph (3).”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "SI 1991/2731, as amended by SI 2005/3325."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/749/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:34:11.315669+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."
}