Courts and Legal Services Act 1990

8 (1) The Advisory Committee may, with the approval of the Lord Chancellor as to terms and conditions of service, appoint such staff as it may determine.

(2) The Advisory Committee, with the approval of the Lord Chancellor, may—

(a) pay such pensions, allowances or gratuities to or in respect of any persons who have been or are members of its staff as it may determine;

(b) make such payments as it may so determine towards provision for the payment of pensions, allowances or gratuities to or in respect of any such persons;

(c) provide and maintain such schemes as it may so determine (whether contributory or not) for the payment of pensions, allowances or gratuities to or in respect of any such persons;

(d) make such other arrangements for the provision of pensions, allowances or gratuities to or in respect of any such persons as it may so determine.

(3) Any reference in sub-paragraph (2) to pensions, allowances or gratuities to or in respect of any such persons as are mentioned in that sub-paragraph includes a reference to pensions, allowances or gratuities by way of compensation to or in respect of any of the Advisory Committee’s staff who suffer loss of employment or loss or diminution of emoluments.

(4) If any person—

(a) on ceasing to be a member of the Advisory Committee’s staff becomes a member of the Advisory Committee; and

(b) was by reference to his being a member of the Advisory Committee’s staff a participant in any pension scheme maintained by or on behalf of the Advisory Committee for the benefit of any of its staff,

the Advisory Committee may, with the approval of the Lord Chancellor, make provision for him to continue to participate in that scheme, on such terms and conditions as it may with the consent of the Lord Chancellor determine, as if his service as a member were service as a member of the Advisory Committee’s staff; and any such provision shall be without prejudice to paragraph 7.

(5) The consent of the Treasury shall be required for the giving of any approval under this paragraph.