{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-transfer-between-judicial-pension-schemes-regulations-1995/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-transfer-between-judicial-pension-schemes-regulations-1995/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/636",
  "legislation_title": "The Judicial Pensions (Transfer Between Judicial Pension Schemes) Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-pensions-transfer-between-judicial-pension-schemes-regulations-1995",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Title and commencement",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“former scheme” means any relevant scheme of the member (except a voluntary contributions scheme) prior to his transfer to the Part I scheme other than the last existing scheme;\n“last existing scheme” means:\n(a) the relevant scheme of the member immediately prior to his transfer to the Part I scheme;\n(b) where a member was a member of a relevant scheme prior to appointment as Lord Chancellor and is subsequently re-appointed to qualifying judicial office, the relevant scheme at the date he last held qualifying judicial office; or\n(c) where Part I of the 1993 Act applies to a member by virtue of section 1(c) of that Act, the relevant scheme of the member at the date he last held qualifying judicial office;\n“member” means a member of a relevant scheme to whom section 12 of the 1993 Act applies;\n“Part I scheme” means the scheme constituted under Part I of the 1993 Act;\n“relevant scheme” means any judicial pension scheme constituted otherwise than by or under the 1993 Act;\n“the 1993 Act” means the Judicial Pensions and Retirement Act 1993;\n“voluntary contributions scheme” means a judicial pension scheme providing for the purchase of benefits additional to those provided by or under the Part I scheme or a relevant scheme by means of additional voluntary contributions;\n“15 year scheme”, “20 year scheme”, “30 year scheme” and “40 year scheme” means a scheme in respect of which service in qualifying judicial office for 15, 20, 30 or 40 years, as the case may be, is a condition of eligibility for an annual pension at the rate of one half of the last annual salary payable in respect of that office.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/636/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:13:53.395193+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."
}