Part 1: Public Service Pension Schemes Chapter 2: Judicial Schemes Section 54: Transitional protection allowance
When the 2015 scheme was introduced, judges who satisfied certain criteria were given a one-off option to opt out of the pension scheme and instead receive an allowance known as transitional protection allowance (TPA) (representing in monetary terms the ‘actual’ employer contribution that would otherwise have been paid to the pension scheme).
	This section requires that if a judge who received TPA wishes to make a legacy scheme election, they, or if they are deceased, their personal representatives, must repay the amount of the TPA payment less the tax paid on the amount.