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Following the O’Brien 2 litigation, this power was extended by the 2023 FPJPS amendments to permit the MoJ to reconcile PILs paid to judges in relation to their pre-2000 service where those amounts were paid before 1 April 2023—the date on which the 2023 FPJPS amendments came into force. However, exact pension entitlements could not be calculated immediately from 1 April 2023 due to operational constraints, so payments continued to be made on an approximated basis after that date, albeit that they were paid as pension rather than PILs. Therefore, these amendment regulations extend the reconciliation powers to permit the MoJ to continue to reconcile the approximated pension payments made to judges from 1 April 2023 in respect of their pre-2000 service.