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Version date: 1 December 2001 - onwards
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Article 326 Judicial pensions: transfer of accrued benefits

(1) Schedule 13 to the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (transfer of accrued benefits) is amended as follows.

(2) In paragraph 1 of Schedule 1A [Schedule 1A is to be inserted in the Judicial Pensions Act 1981 (c. 20), from a date not yet appointed on the date when this Order comes in to force. ] (to be inserted in the Judicial Pensions Act 1981), the existing provision becomes sub-paragraph (1).

(3) In that sub-paragraph, for the definition of "authorised insurance company" substitute -

""authorised insurer" means -

(i) a person who has permission under Part 4 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 to effect or carry out contracts of long-term insurance, or

(ii) an EEA firm of the kind mentioned in paragraph 5(d) of Schedule 3 to that Act, which has permission under paragraph 15 of that Schedule (as a result of qualifying for authorisation under paragraph 12 of that Schedule) to effect or carry out contracts of long-term insurance;".

(4) After that sub-paragraph, insert -

"(2) The definition of "authorised insurer" in sub-paragraph (1) must be read with -

(a) section 22 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000;

(b) any relevant order under that section;

(c) Schedule 2 to that Act.".