SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 14 Transitional provisions and savings
Part V Magistrates and magistrates’ courts
District Judges (Magistrates’ Courts): pensions
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1
For the purposes specified in sub-paragraph (2), a person who—
a
is a stipendiary magistrate or metropolitan stipendiary magistrate immediately before the time when section 78 of this Act comes into force, and
b
is at that time a member of a judicial pension scheme constituted by the M1Judicial Pensions Act 1981,
shall not be regarded as having been appointed (by virtue of paragraph 22) to be a District Judge (Magistrates’ Courts) but shall instead be regarded as if he continued to be a stipendiary magistrate or metropolitan stipendiary magistrate.
2
The purposes referred to in sub-paragraph (1) are those of—
a
the Judicial Pensions Act 1981,
b
any scheme constituted by that Act, and
c
any enactment made by or under an Act which applies to such a scheme or to rights arising under such a scheme.