# Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Act 2022, Section 3: Benefits already paid

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

(1) Subsection (2) applies in relation to any benefits (“the paid benefits”) that a Chapter 1 new scheme has at any time paid to a person (“P”) so far as—
(a) they are calculated by reference to P’s, or any other person’s, remediable service in an employment or office, and
(b) they are benefits that, as a result of section 2(1)(a), P was not entitled to receive from the scheme.
(2) The paid benefits are to be treated for all purposes—
(a) as not having been paid to P by the Chapter 1 new scheme, but
(b) as having been paid to P instead by the relevant Chapter 1 legacy scheme.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2022/7/section/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/public-service-pensions-and-judicial-offices-act-2022/section-3
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