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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-european-court-of-human-rights-amendment-order-2025/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2025/271",
  "legislation_title": "The Judicial Pensions (European Court of Human Rights) (Amendment) Order 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-european-court-of-human-rights-amendment-order-2025",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order amends the Judicial Pensions (European Court of Human Rights) Order 1998 (“the 1998 Order”), made under the powers conferred by section 18(6) of, and Schedule 4 to, the Human Rights Act 1998. In particular:\nArticle 5 updates the 1998 Order so that an ECHR judge may continue to accrue benefits in the pension scheme constituted by the Judicial Pensions Regulations 2022 (“the Judicial Pension Scheme 2022”) in circumstances where the judge is a member of that scheme immediately prior to their appointment as an ECHR judge. It also provides that, if the ECHR judge opts to become a member of the pension scheme offered by the Council of Europe, then they will be deemed as having opted out of the Judicial Pension Scheme 2022.\nArticle 6 inserts a new provision which establishes that, for the purposes of the Judicial Pension Scheme 2022, the ECHR judge’s pensionable earnings will be treated as being those that the judge would have received, had they continued to perform the duties of their UK judicial office.\nArticle 8 inserts a new provision which establishes that, for the purposes of the Judicial Pension Scheme 2022, the ECHR judge will be treated as holding, and serving in, their UK judicial office, and that their UK judicial office will be treated a qualifying judicial office for the purposes of the Judicial Pensions Regulations 2022.\nA full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sector is foreseen. An Explanatory Memorandum has been published alongside this Order on http://www.legislation.gov.uk.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/271/note",
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  "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."
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