1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Courts (Compensation to Officers) (Amendment) Regulations 1973 and shall come into operation on 1st January 1974.
(2) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Courts (Compensation to Officers) Regulations 1971() and a reference to a regulation by number means the regulation so numbered in those Regulations.
(3) The Interpretation Act 1889 shall apply to the interpretation of these Regulations as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.
2.—(1) In the definition of “normal retiring age” in regulation 2(1) of the principal Regulations, there shall be inserted after paragraph (a) the following paragraph—
“(aa)in relation to a person claiming compensation in respect of the office of chairman or deputy chairman of county quarter sessions or of recorder or deputy, assistant or temporary recorder of a borough, seventy-two years; and”.
(2) The compensating authority may review any decision made before the coming into operation of these Regulations in respect of a claim in relation to any of the offices mentioned in paragraph (1) above, provided that any compensation payable by virtue of that decision shall not be reduced by reason only of a review under this paragraph.
3. For the tables in the Schedule to the principal Regulations there shall be substituted the tables in the Schedule to these Regulations.
Hailsham of St. Marylebone, C
Dated 26th November 1973
Concurrence of the Minister for the Civil Service given under his Official Seal on 27th November 1973.
L.S.
K.H. McNeill
Authorised by the Minister for the Civil Service