Part 1: Public Service Pension Schemes Chapter 2: Judicial Schemes Section 50: Effect of elections on pension contributions previously paid or payable
Section 50(1) to 50(4) deem that, where a person has made a legacy scheme election, any contributions made to a 2015 scheme are to be treated as having been made on a year by year basis to their legacy scheme. Section 50(1) and 50(2) apply to the salaried judicial legacy scheme; section 50(3) and 50(4) apply to the fee-paid judicial legacy scheme.
	Section 50(5) to 50(7) deem that, where person has made a 2015 scheme election, any contributions made to their legacy scheme are to be treated as having been made on a year by year basis to the 2015 scheme.
	Where, as a result of this section, the scheme owes a person a refund of excess contributions (or vice versa where there is a contributions shortfall), this is to be paid in line with the steps set out in section 52.