{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-service-pensions-and-judicial-offices-act-2022/section-46",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-service-pensions-and-judicial-offices-act-2022/section-46.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2022/7",
  "legislation_title": "Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Act 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-service-pensions-and-judicial-offices-act-2022",
  "path": "section/46",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "46",
  "heading": "Person by whom election is to be made",
  "text": "(1) The person by whom a legacy scheme election or 2015 scheme election in respect of a person (“P”) is to be made is P or, if P is deceased—\n(a) the adult survivor, or\n(b) if there is no adult survivor, P’s personal representatives.\n(2) In this section “adult survivor” means a surviving spouse, civil partner or other adult who is entitled under the relevant judicial scheme to a pension determined (to any extent) by reference to P’s remediable service.\n(3) In subsection (2) “the relevant judicial scheme” means the judicial scheme under which P most recently accrued pensionable service.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Ss. 40-66 excluded (5.7.2023) by The Judicial Pensions (Remediable Service etc.) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/766), regs. 1(b), 9(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 46 in force at Royal Assent for specified purposes, see s. 131(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 46 in force at 4.7.2023 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2023/746, reg. 2(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2022/7/section/46",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:57:27.065737+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."
}