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Judicial Pensions and Retirement Act 1993

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14(1)Section 92 of the [1981 c. 54.] Supreme Court Act 1981 (tenure of office of certain officers of the Supreme Court) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this paragraph.

(2)In subsection (1) (certain Masters, Registrars and other officers of the Supreme Court to vacate office at the end of the completed year of service in which they attain the age of 72)—

(a)after the words “Subject to the following provisions of this section” there shall be inserted the words “and to subsections (4) to (6) of section 26 of the Judicial Pensions and Retirement Act 1993 (Lord Chancellor’s power to authorise continuance in office up to the age of 75)”; and

(b)for the words from “at the end” onwards there shall be substituted the words “on the day on which he attains the age of seventy years.”

(3)In subsection (2B) (offices to which subsection (2A) applies) the words “and the office of Queen’s Coroner and Attorney and Master of the Crown Office and Registrar of Criminal Appeals” shall be omitted.

(4)Subsection (2C) (which makes provision for determining the day on which persons who successively hold offices falling within column 1 of Part I or II of Schedule 2 to that Act are to be regarded as completing a year of service, and which is of no further utility) shall cease to have effect.

(5)After that subsection there shall be inserted—

“(2D)Subject to the following provisions of this section, a person who holds an office to which this subsection applies shall vacate it on the day on which he attains the age of sixty-two years.

(2E)Subsection (2D) applies to the office of Queen’s Coroner and Attorney and Master of the Crown Office and Registrar of Criminal Appeals.”

(6)Subsection (3) (which contains power to continue a person’s appointment to an office to which subsection (1) applies up to the age of 75 and which is superseded by section 26(4) to (6) of this Act) shall cease to have effect.

(7)In subsection (4) (offices to which subsection (1) or (2A) applies to be held during good behaviour) for the words “or (2A)” there shall be substituted the words “, (2A) or (2D)”.

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