Statutory Instruments
2000 No. 2984
PENSIONS
The Judicial Pensions (Specification of Alternative Scheme) Regulations 2000
Made
2nd November 2000
Laid before Parliament
10th November 2000
Coming into force
1st December 2000
The Lord Chancellor in relation to pension schemes for which he is the appropriate authority within the meaning of paragraph 2(5) of Schedule 5 to the Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999( 1 ), and the Secretary of State in relation to pension schemes for which he is the appropriate authority within the meaning of that paragraph, in exercise of the powers conferred upon them by paragraph 2(3) of the said Schedule 5, make the following Regulations:
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Judicial Pensions (Specification of Alternative Scheme) Regulations 2000 and shall come into force on 1st December 2000.
Interpretation
2. In these Regulations:—
“the 1993 Act” means the Judicial Pensions and Retirement Act 1993 ( 2 );
“the 1999 Act” means the Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999 ;
“judicial pension scheme” has the meaning given by section 30(1) of the 1993 Act.
Specification of alternative to certain judicial pension schemes
3. —(1) This regulation applies to every judicial pension scheme other than a scheme constituted by or under the 1993 Act.
(2) Where a scheme to which this regulation applies is closed to new members, the scheme constituted by Part I of the 1993 Act is specified as an alternative to it for the purposes of paragraph 2(5) of Schedule 5 to the 1999 Act.
Irvine of Lairg, C.
Dated 1st November 2000
John Reid
Secretary of State for Scotland
Dated 2nd November 2000