{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-regulations-2015/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-regulations-2015/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/182",
  "legislation_title": "The Judicial Pensions Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Establishment and scope",
  "text": "(1) A career average revalued earnings scheme is established as a defined benefits scheme for the payment of pensions and other benefits to or in respect of—\n(a) the judiciary, and\n(b) persons to whom this scheme may potentially relate by virtue of paragraph (2) and in respect of whom the Lord Chancellor makes a determination under section 25(5) of the Act.\n(1A) Where such a determination is made, these Regulations apply to those persons to which paragraph (1)(b) applies, subject to paragraph (1B).\n(1B) The Lord Chancellor may by direction modify the provisions of these Regulations in their application to those persons to which paragraph (1)(b) applies, for a purpose specified in section 25(8) of the Act.\n(2) A person appointed to one or more of the following offices is specified as a person to whom this scheme may potentially relate—\n(a) part-time sheriff (Scotland);\n(b) part-time stipendiary magistrate (Scotland);\n(c) part-time summary sheriff (Scotland);\n(d) temporary judge (Scotland);\n(e) Chair of the Agricultural Land Tribunal for Wales holding office on or after 1st April 2015 and before 1st April 2021;\n(f) Chair of the Health Service Products (Pricing, Cost Control and Information) Appeals Tribunal holding office on or after 1st April 2015 and before 1st April 2021;\n(g) Chair of the Reinstatement Committee holding office on or after 1st April 2015 and before 1st April 2021;\n(h) Deputy Chair of the Agricultural Land Tribunal for Wales holding office on or after 1st April 2015 and before 1st April 2021;\n(i) Legal member of the Adjudication Panel for Wales holding office on or after 1st April 2015 and before 1st April 2021;\n(j) Legal member of the Rent Assessment Committee Wales holding office on or after 1st April 2015 and before 1st April 2021;\n(k) Legal member of the Welsh Language Tribunal holding office on or after 1st April 2015 and before 1st April 2021;\n(l) Other member of the First-tier Tribunal, where the office is held by a person who sits as a Chairman in the Property Chamber (Residential Property) holding office on or after 1st April 2015 and before 1st April 2021;\n(m) Other member of the Upper Tribunal, where the office is held by a person who sits as a Chairman in the Lands Chamber and is a Member or Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors holding office on or after 1st April 2025 and before 1st April 2021;\n(n) President of the Adjudication Panel for Wales holding office on or after 1st April 2015 and before 1st April 2021;\n(o) President of the Rent Assessment Committees Wales holding office on or after 1st April 2015 and before 1st April 2021;\n(p) President of the Welsh Language Tribunal holding office on or after 1st April 2015 and before 1st April 2021;\n(q) President of the Welsh Tribunals holding office on or after 1st April 2015 and before 1st April 2021;\n(r) Senior Chair of the Health Service Products (Pricing, Cost Control and Information) Appeals Tribunal holding office on or after 1st April 2015 and before 1st April 2021.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 substituted (31.3.2017) by The Judicial Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/508), regs. 1(3), 6"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 3(1A)(1B) inserted (1.4.2021) by The Public Service Pensions Act 2013 (Judicial Offices) (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/36), regs. 1, 3(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 3(2)(e)-(r) inserted (1.4.2021) by The Public Service Pensions Act 2013 (Judicial Offices) (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/36), regs. 1, 3(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/182/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:48:23.803047+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."
}