Part 1: Public Service Pension Schemes Chapter 4: General Section 103: Power to make provision in relation to certain fee-paid judges
Section 103(1) provides a power to make provision for the purpose of ensuring certain judges whom it is accepted have fee-paid service in a relevant legacy scheme from April 2015 are put in the position, so far as possible, that they would have been in had they always been treated as members of that legacy scheme. This specific group of judges (defined in section 103(3)) were aged over 55 on 1 April 2012, in fee-paid service on 31 March 2012 and took up salaried office between 1 April 2012 and 1 December 2012 or, in the case of members of a Northern Ireland scheme, on 31 January 2013.
	The mechanism to deal with rectifying individual circumstances, for example, pension benefits paid, contributions liability and member options that may have been purchased in the 2015 scheme are complex. Section 103(1) therefore provides that regulations may be made in respect of these judges. Section 103(2) sets out provision that may be made under the power in section 103(1) which includes regulations that correspond with some of the powers in Chapter 2 in respect of judges with remediable service.