- Source: Judicial Pensions and Retirement Act 1993
The Judicial Pensions and Retirement Act 1993 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that strengthened the mandatory retirement provisions previously instituted by the Judicial Pensions Act 1959 for members of the British judiciary.
While the 1959 Act forbade service past age 75 by any judges appointed thereafter (Lord Denning being the last exempt jurist in England, retiring in 1982. while in Scotland John Cameron, Lord Cameron retired in 1985), the 1993 Act made the ordinary retirement age 70, and while enabling a minister (presumably the Lord Chancellor) to allow individual judges to remain in office until 75, it expressly forbids persons aged over 75 to hold any judicial post whatsoever. An exception is the post of Lord Chancellor, a political appointee (although the role is no longer judicial).
References
External links
Text of the Judicial Pensions and Retirement Act 1993 as in force today (including any amendments) within the United Kingdom, from legislation.gov.uk.
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Judicial Pensions and Retirement Act 1993
- List of judges of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales
- Life tenure
- Mandatory retirement
- Constitutional Reform Act 2005
- Courts Act 1971
- Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988
- Lords of Appeal in Ordinary
- List of lords of appeal
- Judicial functions of the House of Lords
