# The Pensions Increase (Judicial Pensions) (Amendment) Regulations 1974, Note: Explanatory note


These Regulations further amend the Pensions Increase (Judicial Pensions) Regulations 1972, as amended, 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 to pensions payable to Circuit Judges. In accordance with the power conferred by section 5(4) of the 1971 Act, the Regulations provide for the increases to take effect from 1st April 1973.
(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 current pension rate rose.
(3) The Regulations provide for the payment of the higher rates of increase resulting from the 1973 annual review and provided for in the Pensions Increase (Annual Review) Order 1973 (S.I. 1973/1370). They also provide for increases on all judicial pensions, except the Lord Chancellor's pension, to be free from the restriction referred to in paragraph (2) above. This takes effect from 1st December, 1973 (under the power in section 5(4) of the 1971 Act). The Annual Review Order made in 1974 and in subsequent years is to apply without modification to such pensions, but in the case of pensions which began before 1st July 1972 (or, in some cases, 17th or 26th July 1972), the increases under the Annual Review Orders are to be applied to the pension as increased under the 1972 Regulations.
(4) In the case of the Lord Chancellor's pension, the restriction mentioned in paragraph (2) above is to continue to apply; and the increase payable under these Regulations on a pension calculated by reference to a particular salary is to continue to be 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 Office of Lord Chancellor.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1974/984/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-increase-judicial-pensions-amendment-regulations-1974/note
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