The Judicial Pensions Act 1981 (Amendment) Regulations 2000

• Citation: S.I. 2000/2985
• Sections: 2

Section 1 Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Judicial Pensions Act 1981 (Amendment) Regulations 2000 and shall come into force on 1st December 2000.

Section 2 Amendments to the Judicial Pensions Act 1981

The following shall be inserted after section 29A of the Judicial Pensions Act 1981 —

Pension credits: restriction on payments

(29B)

(1) The appropriate Minister shall have no power to accept, for the benefit of a member of a judicial pension scheme constituted under or by virtue of this Act—

(a) a payment under paragraph 1(3) of Schedule 5 to the Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999,

(b) a payment under section 95 of the Pension Schemes Act 1993 , or

(c) any other payment,

to the extent that that payment directly or indirectly represents a pension credit.

(2) In this section “the appropriate Minister” means—

(a) in relation to any judicial office whose jurisdiction is exercised exclusively in relation to Scotland, the Secretary of State; or

(b) subject to paragraph (a), the Lord Chancellor.