24(1)For the purposes specified in sub-paragraph (2), a person who—U.K.
(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.