{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-regulations-2015/schedule-2/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-regulations-2015/schedule-2/paragraph-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/182",
  "legislation_title": "The Judicial Pensions Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-regulations-2015",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Schedule—\n“closing date”, in relation to a transition member, means—\n(a)if the member is a tapered protection member of a relevant scheme, the tapered protection closing date for that member; or\n(b)if the member is not a protected member of such a scheme, the scheme closing date;\n“full protection member”, in relation to an existing scheme, has the meaning given in paragraphs 8, 9 and 9A;\n“protected member”, in relation to a relevant scheme, means a full protection member or tapered protection member of that scheme;\n“protection period”—\n(a)for a full protection member of an existing scheme, has the meaning given in paragraph 6;\n(b)for a tapered protection member of an existing scheme, has the meaning given in paragraph 11;\n“tapered protection closing date”, in relation to a tapered protection member of a relevant scheme, has the meaning given in paragraph 3;\n“tapered protection member”—\n(a)in relation to an existing scheme, has the meaning given in paragraphs 12, 13 and 13A; and\n(b)in relation to the Fee-Paid Judges Scheme, means a person who meets the conditions in sub-paragraphs (a) to (d) of regulation 14(6);\n“transition date”, in relation to a transition member, means—\n(a)if the member is a tapered protection member of a relevant scheme, the day after the tapered protection closing date for that member;\n(b)if the member is not a protected member of such a scheme, the day after the scheme closing date or, if later, the day the person ceased to be a protected member of the scheme;\n“transition member” means a person—\n(a)who is a member of a relevant scheme by virtue of the person’s pensionable service under that scheme before the transition date; and\n(b)who is a member of this scheme by virtue of the person’s pensionable service under this scheme.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 1 substituted (1.4.2017) by The Judicial Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/508), regs. 1(2), 17(2)(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 1 substituted (1.4.2017) by The Judicial Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/508), regs. 1(2), 17(2)(a)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 1 substituted (31.3.2017) by The Judicial Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/508), regs. 1(3), 17(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 1 substituted (1.4.2017) by The Judicial Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/508), regs. 1(2), 17(2)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 1 substituted (1.4.2017) by The Judicial Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/508), regs. 1(2), 17(2)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 1 substituted (1.4.2017) by The Judicial Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/508), regs. 1(2), 17(2)(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 1 substituted (1.4.2017) by The Judicial Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/508), regs. 1(2), 17(2)(f)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 1 substituted (1.4.2017) by The Judicial Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/508), regs. 1(2), 17(2)(f)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 1 substituted (1.4.2017) by The Judicial Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/508), regs. 1(2), 17(2)(g)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 1 modified (temp.) (31.3.2017) by The Judicial Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/508), regs. 1(3), 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 1 in force at 10.2.2015, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/182/schedule/2/paragraph/1",
    "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."
}