Court of Session Act 1839

XII Salaries of the Judges regulated, and certain Judges Salaries increased. Proviso as to retiring Allowance.

And whereas great Reductions have recently been made in the Judicial Establishments of Scotland, by the Transference of the Jurisdiction and Duties of the Court of Exchequer, the Jury Court, the Admiralty Court, and the Commissary Court, to the Judges of the Court of Session, and by the Abolition of the Offices of Two of the Judges in that Court, whereby the Duties formerly performed by Thirteen Judges, whose Offices are now abolished, have been transferred to the remaining Judges of the Court of Session, and a Saving in the Expence of the Judicial Establishments of Scotland has been effected to the Amount of more than Fifty thousand Pounds per Annum: And whereas the Judicial Business and Duties of the Supreme Courts are by this Act distributed among the said Judges, and therefore the Salaries of the ordinary Judges ought also to be equalized and in some respects increased: Be it enacted, That the annual Salary of the Lord President of the Court of Session shall be Four thousand eight hundred Pounds, and the annual Salary of the Lord Justice Clerk shall be Four thousand five hundred Pounds, and the annual Salaries of all the other Judges of the Court of Session performing the Duties of the Courts of Session, Justiciary, and Exchequer, and of the Bill Chamber, in manner herein provided, shall be of equal Amount, and shall be Three thousand Pounds ; and the said Salaries shall be issued, paid, and applied in manner provided by the before-recited Act passed in the Fiftieth Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Third: Provided always, that no retiring Allowance or Increase of Salary shall be received by any Judge under this Act, unless under Deduction of any retiring Allowance or Salary which such Judge now enjoys or may hereafter enjoy on account of any Judicial Office ; but such Deduction shall be made to the Effect only of preventing any of the present Judges from receiving larger Allowances or Salaries than he now receives.