{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-fee-paid-judges-regulations-2017/regulation-117",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-fee-paid-judges-regulations-2017/regulation-117.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2017/522",
  "legislation_title": "The Judicial Pensions (Fee-Paid Judges) Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-fee-paid-judges-regulations-2017",
  "path": "regulation/117",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "117",
  "heading": "Membership",
  "text": "(1) Membership of the JASAPS is open to unretired and retired members of the principal scheme (but not to opted-out members)—\n(a) who have service in an eligible fee-paid judicial office between 31st March 1995 and 5th April 2006;\n(b) whose benefits under the principal scheme in relation to at least one such office are, or are to be, calculated under the post-1995 provisions; and\n(c) who have a spouse or civil partner to whom benefits could be paid under this Part.\n(2) A person to whom membership of the JASAPS is open may become a JASAPS member by giving notice in writing to the administrators within 48 months of the amendment day (or by such later date as the administrators may agree).\n(3) A JASAPS member has the right to purchase added units of surviving adult's pension (“added surviving adult's pension”) in accordance with the provisions of this Part.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 117(1) substituted (1.4.2023) by The Judicial Pensions (Fee-Paid Judges) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/403), regs. 1(1), 57(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in reg. 117(2) substituted (17.12.2024) by The Judicial Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/1358), regs. 1(1), 22"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 117(2) substituted (1.4.2023) by The Judicial Pensions (Fee-Paid Judges) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/403), regs. 1(1), 57(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/522/regulation/117",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:31:24.532822+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."
}