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Judicial Pensions Act 1959
1959 c. 9 8_and_9_Eliz_2
An Act to amend the law with respect to the pensions and other benefits attaching to certain high judicial offices, to regulate the age of retirement from such offices, and to increase certain pensions and other benefits granted to or in respect of persons who have held such offices.                                    
[17th December 1959]
Annotations:
Commencement Information
I1
Act wholly in force at Royal Assent.

1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F1
Annotations:
Amendments (Textual)
F1
Ss. 1, 2(2), 4, 6, 8 – 11;, Sch. 2 repealed with saving by Judicial Pensions Act 1981 (c. 20, SIF 71:2), Sch. 2 para. 1(3), Sch. 4
2.
Retiring age.
 — (1) A person who holds an office listed in the First Schedule to this Act shall vacate that office on the day on which he attains the age of [ F2 seventy ] years.
(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F3
Annotations:
Amendments (Textual)
F2
Words in s. 2(1) substituted (31.3.1995) by 1993 c. 8, s. 26, Sch. 6 para.3 (with Sch. 7 paras. 2(2), 3(2), 4);S.I. 1995/631, art.2
F3
Ss. 1, 2(2), 4, 6, 8 – 11;, Sch. 2 repealed with saving by Judicial Pensions Act 1981 (c. 20, SIF 71:2), Sch. 2 para. 1(3), Sch. 4
3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F4
Annotations:
Amendments (Textual)
F4
S. 3 repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1989 (c. 43), s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. I
4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F5
Annotations:
Amendments (Textual)
F5
Ss. 1, 2(2), 4, 6, 8 – 11;, Sch. 2 repealed with saving by Judicial Pensions Act 1981 (c. 20, SIF 71:2), Sch. 2 para. 1(3), Sch. 4
[ F6 5.
Rate of Lord Chancellor ’ s pension.
The annual amount of any pension granted under the Lord Chancellor ’ s Pension M1 Act 1832 for service as Lord Chancellor shall, in the case of a person who resigns that office after the commencement of this Act be five thousand pounds and any Letters Patent issued under that Act before the commencement of this Act shall have effect accordingly. ]
Annotations:
Amendments (Textual)
F6
S. 5 repealed so far as it relates to pension for service as Lord Chancellor of a person who resigns that office after 1.4.1966 by Judges' Remuneration Act 1965 (c. 61), Sch. 3
Marginal Citations
M1
1832 c. 111 (89).
6. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F7
Annotations:
Amendments (Textual)
F7
Ss. 1, 2(2), 4, 6, 8 – 11;, Sch. 2 repealed with saving by Judicial Pensions Act 1981 (c. 20, SIF 71:2), Sch. 2 para. 1(3), Sch. 4
7. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F8
Annotations:
Amendments (Textual)
F8
S. 7 repealed by Pensions (Increase) Act 1971 (c. 56, SIF 101A:3), s. 18(1), Sch. 7, Sch. 8 Pt. I
8 — 11. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F9
Annotations:
Amendments (Textual)
F9
Ss. 1, 2(2), 4, 6, 8 – 11;, Sch. 2 repealed with saving by Judicial Pensions Act 1981 (c. 20, SIF 71:2), Sch. 2 para. 1(3), Sch. 4
12.
Short title.
 This Act may be cited as the Judicial Pensions Act 1959.
     
SCHEDULES
FIRST SCHEDULE
Sections 1, 2, 3, 4.
JUDICIAL OFFICES TO WHICH S. 1 APPLIES
Description of officeRelevant pension enactment
Lord of Appeal in Ordinary . . . F10
. . . F11 . . . F10
Lord Justice General, Lord Justice Clerk, Senator of the College of Justice in Scotland. . . . F10
Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland, Lord Justice of Appeal in Northern Ireland, Judge of the High Court of Justice in Northern Ireland. . . . F10
Annotations:
Amendments (Textual)
F10
Entries repealed with saving by Judicial Pensions Act 1981 (c. 20, SIF 71:2), Sch. 2 para. 1(3), Sch. 4
F11
Words repealed by Supreme Court Act 1981 (c. 54, SIF 37), Sch. 7
SECOND SCHEDULE
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F12
Annotations:
Amendments (Textual)
F12
Ss. 1, 2(2), 4, 6, 8 – 11;, Sch. 2 repealed with saving by Judicial Pensions Act 1981 (c. 20, SIF 71:2), Sch. 2 para. 1(3), Sch. 4
THIRD SCHEDULE
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F13
Annotations:
Amendments (Textual)
F13
Sch. 3 repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1974 (c. 22), Sch. Pt. XI



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Attributes of:   Judicial Pensions Act 1959 (c. 9)
Version no Start date End date Extent Confers power Blanket amendment
> 1 01/02/1991   E+W+S+N.I. N N

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