{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-regulations-northern-ireland-2015/section-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-regulations-northern-ireland-2015/section-17.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2015/76",
  "legislation_title": "The Judicial Pensions Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-regulations-northern-ireland-2015",
  "path": "section/17",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Enrolment",
  "text": "(1) A person (P) begins pensionable service under this scheme in relation to a qualifying judicial office on the first day on which P becomes an eligible person in relation to service in that office unless—\n(a) regulation 21 applies; or\n(b) P is a transition member with continuity of service and paragraph (2) applies.\n(2) This paragraph applies if—\n(a) the first day on which P becomes an eligible person in relation to service in a qualifying judicial office is the day after P's transition date; and\n(b) on P's transition date—\n(i) P was in service in the same office; and\n(ii) P has opted out of a relevant scheme in relation to that service.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 17(2)(b)(ii) substituted (2.5.2023) by The Judicial Pensions (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2023 (S.R. 2023/63), regs. 1(2), 5"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/76/section/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:03:33.835756+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."
}