{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-regulations-2015/schedule-2/paragraph-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-regulations-2015/schedule-2/paragraph-16.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/16",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Annual rate of surviving adult’s pensions payable under this scheme when a transition member dies in service",
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies in relation to a transition member with continuity of service—\n(a) who dies as an active member of this scheme; and\n(b) whose period of service is at least 12 months.\n(2) Where there is an entitlement under this scheme and a relevant scheme to a surviving adult’s pension, the annual rate of that pension is the sum of—\n(a) the amount of dependant’s earned pension calculated under regulation 100; and\n(b) the amount of the equivalent surviving spouse’s or surviving civil partner’s pension payable under a relevant scheme.\n(3) Where there is an entitlement to a surviving adult’s pension, the payment of any pension or enhancement in respect of the member’s assumed period of pensionable service is not payable under a relevant scheme.\n(4) In this paragraph—\n“the member’s assumed period of pensionable service” means the period—\n(a)beginning with the day after the date of the member’s death; and\n(b)ending with—\n(i)for a member appointed for a fixed term, the day on which that term would have ended; and\n(ii)for all other appointments, the day before the day on which the member would have reached prospective normal pension age if the member had lived until that age; and\n“period of service” means—\n(a)the member’s continuous period of pensionable service under this scheme; and\n(b)the member’s pensionable service under a relevant scheme before the closing date.\n(5) In this paragraph a reference to “pensionable service” in relation to the Fee-Paid Judges Scheme is a reference to qualifying judicial service.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 16(2)(3)(4) substituted (1.4.2017) by The Judicial Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/508), regs. 1(2), 17(9)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 16(5) inserted (1.4.2017) by The Judicial Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/508), regs. 1(2), 17(9)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 16 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/16",
    "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."
}