Statutory Instruments
2000 No. 2985
PENSIONS
The Judicial Pensions Act 1981 (Amendment) Regulations 2000
Made
2nd November 2000
Laid before Parliament
10th November 2000
Coming into force
1st December 2000
The Lord Chancellor and the Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred upon them by section 43 of the Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999( 1 ), make the following Regulations:
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Judicial Pensions Act 1981 (Amendment) Regulations 2000 and shall come into force on 1st December 2000.
Amendments to the Judicial Pensions Act 1981
2. The following shall be inserted after section 29A of the Judicial Pensions Act 1981( 2 )—
“ 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 ( 3 ) , 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. ” .
Irvine of Lairg, C.
Dated 1st November 2000
John Reid
Secretary of State for Scotland
Dated 2nd November 2000
1981 c. 20 : Schedule 1A is inserted by Schedule 13 of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990; this has not yet been brought into force.