{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-contributions-regulations-1995/regulation-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-contributions-regulations-1995/regulation-9.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/638",
  "legislation_title": "The Judicial Pensions (Contributions) Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-contributions-regulations-1995",
  "path": "regulation/9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Lord Chancellor",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies to any office-holder who is appointed to qualifying judicial office on or after the appointed day who previously held the office of Lord Chancellor.\n(2) Where an office-holder elects, at the date of retirement, to take the pension awarded to him on ceasing to hold the office of Lord Chancellor under the Lord Chancellor’s Pension Act 1832 he shall have any contributions made while in qualifying judicial office refunded together with compound interest.\n(3) Where an office-holder is appointed to qualifying judicial office for the first time after holding the office of Lord Chancellor, the contributions credit shall be calculated in accordance with regulation 4(3) except that —\n(a) the notional service shall be the actual period or periods of service as Lord Chancellor in years and days (expressed in years and fractions of years as appropriate); and\n(b) for the purposes of B the length of notional service shall end on the day immediately prior to the date on which the scheme constituted under Part I begins to apply to the office-holder.\n(4) Where an office-holder had service in qualifying judicial office prior to his appointment as Lord Chancellor and is subsequently re-appointed to a qualifying judicial office under Part I, the service credit in respect of the previous office or offices shall be calculated in accordance with the Judicial Pensions (Transfer Between Judicial Pension Schemes) Regulations 1995 and the contributions credit shall be calculated in accordance with regulation 4(4).\n(5) Where the contributions credit exceeds 20 years, and, on retirement, a pension is awarded under Part I, there shall be refunded (subject to regulation 8(10)) the value of the excess, calculated in accordance with the formula\nU-BV×20 where —\na U is the contributions actually made into the last existing scheme and any former scheme and those made while holding the office of Lord Chancellor together with compound interest;\nb B has the meaning given in regulation 8(3) as amended by paragraph (3)(b) above; and\nc V is the notional service ascertained on the same basis as in paragraphs (3)(a) or (4) as appropriate.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1832 c. 111."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/638/regulation/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:13:51.841786+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."
}