{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-fee-paid-judges-regulations-2017/regulation-123",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-fee-paid-judges-regulations-2017/regulation-123.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/123",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "123",
  "heading": "Purchase of added surviving adult's pension by unretired JASAPS members",
  "text": "(1) A notice given under regulation 117(2) by an unretired JASAPS member (“M”) must specify—\n(a) M's assumed contribution commencement date;\n(b) M's assumed retirement age;\n(c) the number of qualifying fee-paid days in any office in relation to which benefits are to be calculated under the post-1995 provisions which M proposes to work each year to the period ending with the date on which M reaches M's assumed retirement age; and\n(d) the number of units of added surviving adult's pension which M intends to purchase.\n(2) The maximum number of units which an unretired member may purchase in the JASAPS is the amount which the administrators determine would produce a pension equal to a sum calculated in accordance with the formula—\nA × ( Y + Z ) 45where—\naA is—\n(i)where M held a single judicial office on the assumed contribution date, the salary which would have been M's appropriate annual salary if M had retired on that date;\n(ii)where M held more than one judicial office on the assumed contribution date, the salary which would have the highest appropriate salary of these offices if M had retired on that date; and\nbY is M's reckonable service in any office in relation to which benefits are to be calculated under the post-1995 provisions between the date on which M first held eligible fee-paid judicial office and the date on which M reaches M’s assumed retirement age as if the principal scheme had not closed to further accruals (assuming that M works the number of qualifying fee-paid days notified under paragraph (1)(c)) expressed in years and fractions of a year to four decimal places;\ncZ is—\n(i)if M is purchasing added years, the number of added years which M would have purchased by the date on which M reaches M's assumed retirement age, or\n(ii)if M is not purchasing added years, nil.\n(3) The date on which M is to start payment of periodic contributions (“the periodic contributions start date”) must—\n(a) be within 12 months of the date on which M gives the notice, and\n(b) be agreed between M and the administrators.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in reg. 123(1) substituted (1.4.2023) by The Judicial Pensions (Fee-Paid Judges) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/403), regs. 1(1), 61(3)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 123(1)(c) inserted (1.4.2023) by The Judicial Pensions (Fee-Paid Judges) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/403), regs. 1(1), 61(3)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in reg. 123(2) substituted (1.4.2023) by The Judicial Pensions (Fee-Paid Judges) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/403), regs. 1(1), 61(3)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 123(2)(b) inserted (1.4.2023) by The Judicial Pensions (Fee-Paid Judges) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/403), regs. 1(1), 61(3)(d)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 123(2)(b) substituted (1.4.2023) by The Judicial Pensions (Fee-Paid Judges) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/403), regs. 1(1), 61(3)(d)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Word in reg. 123 heading substituted (1.4.2023) by The Judicial Pensions (Fee-Paid Judges) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/403), regs. 1(1), 61(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/522/regulation/123",
    "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."
}