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Judicial Pensions Act 1981

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PART I

1This Schedule applies to the following officers:—

  • Supreme Court officers

    • Master and Assistant Master of the Supreme Court (Queen's Bench Division).

    • Admiralty Registrar.

    • Master of the Supreme Court (Chancery Division).

    • Master of the Supreme Court (Taxing Office).

    • Master of the Court of Protection.

    • Lord Chancellor's Legal Visitor.

    • Registrar, High Court in Bankruptcy.

    • Taxing Master, High Court in Bankruptcy.

    • Registrar, Family Division (not including a district probate registrar).

    • Registrar, and Assistant Registrar, of Criminal Appeals.

  • County court officers

    • County court registrar.

    • County court assistant registrar.

  • Transport Tribunal

    • President of the Transport Tribunal.

Relevant service

2(1)In this Schedule "relevant service" in relation to any office of the Supreme Court listed in paragraph 1 above means service in that or any other office of the Supreme Court so listed, or as president of the Transport Tribunal.

(2)In this Schedule " relevant service ", in relation to the office of county court registrar, or assistant county court registrar, means service in either of those offices.

(3)In this Schedule " relevant service ", in relation to the office of the president of the Transport Tribunal, means service in that office, or in any office of the Supreme Court listed in paragraph 1 above.

Person within principal civil service pension scheme prior to appointment

3(1)This paragraph has effect as respects a person who at the time of his appointment to an office within paragraph 1 above was employed in the civil service of the State and was subject to the principal civil service pension scheme.

(2)If such a person so elects—

(a)he shall continue to be subject to the principal civil service pension scheme as if service in an office within paragraph 1 above were employment in the civil service of the State, and

(b)the provisions of Parts II, III and IV of this Schedule, and of Part II of this Act, shall not apply to him.

(3)An election under this paragraph shall be made by notice in writing in such form and within such period as may be prescribed by the Lord Chancellor.

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