Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether (a) the Judicial Pensions (Fee-Paid Judges) Regulations 2017 and (b) the Judicial Pensions (Fee-Paid Judges) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 are in scope of Clause 1 of the Retained EU Law Bill through being made or operated immediately before the implementation period completion day, for a purpose mentioned in section 2(2)(a) of the European Communities Act (implementation of EU obligations etc).

The Secretary of State for Justice is presently considering implications of the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill for the Judicial Pensions (Fee-Paid Judges) Regulations 2017 and the Judicial Pensions (Fee-Paid Judges) (Amendment) Regulations 2023, and the options available to him. In that context, the Secretary of State is mindful of the historic pension entitlements of fee-paid judges.

For service after 31 March 2022, fee-paid judges have accrued pension entitlements in the new JPS22 Pension Scheme which is unaffected by the Bill.