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In advance of the FPJPS regulations being made, the Ministry of Justice made interim payments in lieu of pension—known as PILs—to eligible judges, in order to provide an approximation of the remedy they would likely receive once the legislation was in place and operationalised. The regulations included a power to “reconcile” these payments with the actual amounts of pension owing. These powers allowed the MoJ, once the regulations were in force, either to recover any excess PILs payments made or to pay out further pension where PILs had been underpaid.