The Pensions Increase (Judicial Pensions) (Amendment) Regulations 1973

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Pensions Increase (Judicial Pensions) (Amendment) Regulations 1973, and shall come into operation on 19th April 1973.

2.—(1) In these Regulations—

“the 1971 Act” means the Pensions (Increase) Act 1971;

“the principal Regulations” means the Pensions Increase (Judicial Pensions) Regulations 1972(1).

(2) The Interpretation Act 1889 shall apply for the interpretation of these Regulations as it applies for the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.

3.—(1) The 1971 Act shall have effect in relation to a pension payable under section 29(2) of the Administration of Justice (Scotland) Act 1933 (judges clerks in Scotland appointed before 28th July 1933) as if such a pension were specified in Part I of Schedule 2 to the 1971 Act, but the 1971 Act shall apply in relation to such a pension subject to the modifications specified in the principal Regulations as amended by these Regulations.

(2) The 1971 Act shall have effect in relation to—

(a) a pension payable under a scheme under section 395 of the Middlesex County Council Act 1944 (chairman and deputy chairman of Middlesex Quarter Sessions),

(b) a pension payable under Part I of the Administration of Justice (Pensions) Act 1950 in respect of service of any person as chairman or deputy chairman of Middlesex Quarter Sessions, and

(c) a pension payable under a scheme under section 5 of the Kent Quarter Sessions Act 1962 (chairman of Kent Quarter Sessions),

as if such a pension were specified in Part II of Schedule 2 to the 1971 Act, but the 1971 Act shall apply in relation to such a pension subject to the modifications specified in the principal Regulations as amended by these Regulations.

(3) Any increase of pension payable by virtue of this Regulation shall take effect from 1st September 1971.

4.  The provisions of the Schedule to the principal Regulations shall have effect subject to the amendments specified in Schedule 1 to these Regulations for the purpose of calculating increases of pensions in respect of periods beginning not earlier than the effective dates respectively specified in the said Schedule 1 in relation to those amendments and ending not later than 30th November 1972.

5.—(1) The principal Regulations shall be amended—

(a) by substituting, in Regulation 5(1)(b) thereof, for the figures “1.1800” the figures “1.2968”, and

(b) by substituting for the provisions of the Schedule thereto the provisions of Schedule 2 to these Regulations.

(2) Any increase of pension payable by virtue of this Regulation shall take effect from 1st December 1972.

Given under the official seal of the Minister for the Civil Service on 21st March 1973.

L.S.

Kenneth Baker

Parliamentary Secretary to the Civil Service Department