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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-european-court-of-human-rights-order-1998/article-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/2768",
  "legislation_title": "The Judicial Pensions (European Court of Human Rights) Order 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-european-court-of-human-rights-order-1998",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (3), articles 5 to 7 of this Order apply, for the purposes of the 1981 Act, to an ECHR judge who, immediately before his appointment as an ECHR judge, was or, but for an election under section 14A of the 1981 Act, would be, a member of one of the judicial pension schemes constituted under the 1981 Act.\n(2) Articles 5, 6 and 8 of this Order apply, for the purposes of the 1993 Act, to an ECHR judge who, immediately before his appointment as an ECHR judge, was or, but for an election under section 13 of the 1993 Act, would be, a person to whom Part I of the 1993 Act applies.\n(3) Where paragraph (1) applies to an ECHR judge and he becomes a person to whom Part I of the 1993 Act applies:\n(a) articles 5 to 7 of this Order apply to him, for the purposes of the 1981 Act, in respect of the period before the date on which he first becomes a person to whom Part I of the 1993 Act applies; and\n(b) articles 5, 6 and 8 of this Order apply to him, for the purposes of the 1993 Act, in respect of the period from the date on which he first becomes a person to whom Part I of the 1993 Act applies.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 14A was inserted by 1988/1417."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2025/271",
      "affecting_title": "The Judicial Pensions (European Court of Human Rights) (Amendment) Order 2025"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2025/271",
      "affecting_title": "The Judicial Pensions (European Court of Human Rights) (Amendment) Order 2025"
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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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