{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-miscellaneous-offices-requisite-benefits-order-1978/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-miscellaneous-offices-requisite-benefits-order-1978/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1978/552",
  "legislation_title": "The Pensions (Miscellaneous Offices) (Requisite Benefits) Order 1978",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-miscellaneous-offices-requisite-benefits-order-1978",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires:—\n“the Act of 1950” means the Administration of Justice (Pensions) Act 1950;\n“the Act of 1975” means the Social Security Pensions Act 1975;\n“final salary” has the meaning given by Article 10;\n“judicial office” includes any of the offices listed, or treated by any enactment as listed, in Schedule 1 of the Act of 1950;\n“normal pension age” has the same meaning as in the Act of 1975;\n“office holder” means a person who is, or has been the holder of any scheduled office;\n“principal civil service pension scheme” means the principal civil service pension scheme within the meaning of section 2 of the Superannuation Act 1972;\n“relevant enactment” means an enactment by virtue of which an office holder might be granted a pension in respect of any relevant service and, in the case of a person who has held more than one judicial office, includes any enactment relating to the payment of superannuation benefits to or in respect of such a person;\n“relevant service” has the meaning given by Article 5(3) and (4);\n“scheduled office” means:—\n(a) an office listed in Part I of the Schedule to this Order;\n(b) an office listed in Part II of that Schedule where the holder of such office has elected for the statutory scheme of pensions and other benefits applicable to the judicial offices listed in Schedule 1 to the Judicial Pensions Act 1959;\n“scheme” means, in relation to any office holder, the public service pension scheme established by a relevant enactment;\nother expressions used in the Act of 1975 or in the Social Security Act 1975 shall have the same meaning in this Order as in the relevant Act;\nany reference to any enactment shall be construed as a reference to that enactment as amended, extended or applied by any other enactment including this Order.\n(2) The Interpretation Act of 1889 shall apply to the interpretation of this Order as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1978/552/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T19:36:43.450801+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."
}