{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-regulations-2015/regulation-61",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-regulations-2015/regulation-61.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/182",
  "legislation_title": "The Judicial Pensions Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/61",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "61",
  "heading": "Partial retirement option notice",
  "text": "(1) A partial retirement option may only be exercised—\n(a) by notice to the scheme manager in a form required by the scheme manager (“option notice”); and\n(b) in the 3 months after P’s pensionable earnings are reduced, on a date agreed by the member and the scheme manager.\n(2) An option notice must specify—\n(a) whether P claims payment of—\n(i) the whole of P’s accrued pensions to which the office relates; or\n(ii) part only of P’s accrued pensions to which the office relates; and\n(b) if P claims payment of part only—\n(i) the descriptions of accrued pension for which payment is claimed; and\n(ii) the proportion of each description of accrued pension for which payment is claimed (“option proportion”), which must comply with regulation 62 , and\n(d) if P holds more than one office, the office or offices in respect of which P is exercising the partial retirement option.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 61(2)(a)(i) inserted (1.4.2022) by The Judicial Pensions Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/319), reg. 1(4), Sch. 3 para. 4(9)(a) (with reg. 120)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 61(2)(a)(ii) inserted (1.4.2022) by The Judicial Pensions Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/319), reg. 1(4), Sch. 3 para. 4(9)(b) (with reg. 120)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 61(2)(d) and word inserted (1.4.2022) by The Judicial Pensions Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/319), reg. 1(4), Sch. 3 para. 4(9)(c) (with reg. 120)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Reg. 61(1)(b) modified (5.7.2023) by The Judicial Pensions (Remediable Service etc.) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/766), regs. 1(b), 10(5)(6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 61 in force at 1.4.2015, see reg. 1(4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/182/regulation/61",
    "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."
}