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title: "Judicial Pensions Act 1959"
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# Judicial Pensions Act 1959

## Title and introductory text {#prelims}

Judicial Pensions Act 1959
1959 c. 9
An Act to amend the law with respect to the pensions and other benefits attaching to certain high judicial offices, to regulate the age of retirement from such offices, and to increase certain pensions and other benefits granted to or in respect of persons who have held such offices.
[17th December 1959]

## 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . {#section-1}



## 2 Retiring age. {#section-2}

(1) A person who holds an office listed in the First Schedule to this Act shall vacate that office on the day on which he attains the age of 75.
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## 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . {#section-3}



## 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . {#section-4}



## 5 Rate of Lord Chancellor’s pension. {#section-5}

The annual amount of any pension granted under the Lord Chancellor’s Pension Act 1832 for service as Lord Chancellor shall, in the case of a person who resigns that office after the commencement of this Act be five thousand pounds and any Letters Patent issued under that Act before the commencement of this Act shall have effect accordingly.

## 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . {#section-6}



## 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . {#section-7}



## 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . {#section-811.}



## 12 Short title. {#section-12}

This Act may be cited as the Judicial Pensions Act 1959.

## FIRST SCHEDULE JUDICIAL OFFICES TO WHICH S. 1 APPLIES {#schedule-FIRST}

Sections 1, 2, 3, 4.
Description of office | Relevant pension enactment
Lord of Appeal in Ordinary | . . .
. . . | . . .
Lord Justice General, Lord Justice Clerk, Senator of the College of Justice in Scotland. | . . .
Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland, Lord Justice of Appeal in Northern Ireland, Judge of the High Court of Justice in Northern Ireland. | . . .

## SECOND SCHEDULE {#schedule-SECOND}

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## THIRD SCHEDULE {#schedule-THIRD}

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