# The Pensions Increase (Judicial Pensions) (Amendment) Regulations 1973, Note: Explanatory note


These Regulations amend the Pensions Increase (Judicial Pensions) Regulations 1972, which modify the provisions of the Pensions (Increase) Act 1971 in their application to certain pensions payable in respect of service in judicial and other similar offices.
The main changes are:—
(1) The Regulations apply the 1971 Act, subject to modifications, to certain new classes of pension (judges' clerks in Scotland, chairman and deputy chairman of Middlesex Quarter Sessions, and chairman of Kent Quarter Sessions). In accordance with the power conferred by section 5(4) of the 1971 Act, the Regulations provide for these increases to take effect from 1st September 1971.
(2) In some cases where the 1972 Regulations restrict the amount of the increase that would normally be payable under the 1971 Act so as to secure that the rate of pension in payment does not exceed the pension currently awarded for similar service, current pension levels have risen. In these cases the Regulations provide, under the power in section 5(4) of the 1971 Act, for increases to be correspondingly raised with effect from the date when the pension rate rose.
(3) The Regulations provide for the payment of higher rates of increase resulting from the 1972 annual review of public service pensions and provided for in the Pensions Increase (Annual Review) Order 1972 (S.I. 1972/1298). As in the principal Regulations, the increase payable under these Regulations on any pension calculated by reference to a particular rate of salary is in general equivalent to the increase that would be payable under the 1971 Act on a pension which began on the day after that rate of salary first became applicable to the judicial office concerned. In some cases the Regulations also restrict the amount of increase payable so as to secure that the rate of pension in payment will not exceed the pension that would be currently awarded for a similar record of service. Under the power in section 5(4) of the 1971 Act the Regulations provide for these increases to take effect from 1st December 1972.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1973/495/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-increase-judicial-pensions-amendment-regulations-1973/note
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