Judicial Offices (Salaries, &c.) Act 1952
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1952 c. 12 |
| Year | 1952 |
Judicial Offices (Salaries, &c.) Act, 1952
(15 & 16 Geo. 6 & 1 Eliz. 2) CHAPTER 12
An Act to make further provision as to the sums payable by way of salary, pension or allowances in respect of certain judicial offices.
[13th March 1952]
Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and be the authority of the same, as follows:—
Judicial Offices (Salaries, &c.) Act
England and Wales
1 County court judges, stipendiary magistrates and chairmen of London quarter sessions \(salaries).
(1) There shall be paid—
(a ) to every county court judge a salary of two thousand eight hundred pounds a year, instead of the salary of two thousand pounds a year now payable;
(b ) to the chief of the metropolitan police magistrates a salary of two thousand eight hundred pounds a year, instead of the salary of two thousand three hundred pounds a year now payable;
(c ) to every metropolitan police magistrate (other than the chief of them) a salary of two thousand five hundred pounds a year, instead of the salary of two thousand pounds a year now payable.
(2) The salary payable under this section to a county court judge or metropolitan police magistrate shall—
(a ) be charged on and paid out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom or the growing produce thereof; and
(b ) begin from the date of his appointment (subject to the next following subsection), and accrue due from day to day; and
(c ) be payable at such intervals not exceeding three months as the Treasury think fit.
(3) The foregoing provisions of this section shall have effect as from the first day of July, nineteen hundred and fifty-one, (the salary under this section of a judge or magistrate who held office on that day beginning from that day instead of from the date of his appointment); and any judge or magistrate who held office on that day, or was appointed after that day and before the commencement of this Act, shall be deemed for the purpose of any enactment relating to superannuation, to have received his salary under this section from that day or from the date of his appointment, whichever is the later.
(4) A direction of the Secretary of State under section thirty-two of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1949, about the salary to be paid to a stipendiary magistrate other than a metropolitan police magistrate—
(a ) may have retrospective effect, and may apply to the salary of a magistrate who has died or ceased to hold the office before the giving of the direction; and
(b ) may direct the payment, for any period for which the salary payable to a metropolitan police magistrate other than the chief magistrate has been retrospectively increased, of a salary of an amount up to that of the increased salary so payable;
and any magistrate about whose salary a direction under the said section thirty-two has retrospective effect shall be deemed for the purpose of any enactment relating to superannuation to have received the salary specified in the direction from the day from which the direction has such effect in his case.
(5) The salary payable to any paid chairman or deputy chairman of the quarter sessions for the county of London under section forty-two of the Local Government Act, 1888, may at any time be increased by resolution of the county council, approved by the Lord Chancellor, and any such resolution may have retrospective effect, and may apply to the salary of a chairman or deputy chairman who has died or ceased to hold the office before the passing of the resolution; and any chairman or deputy chairman about whose salary such a resolution has retrospective effect shall be deemed for the purpose of any enactment relating to superannuation to have received the salary specified in the resolution from the day from which the resolution has such effect in his case.
(6) A direction of the Secretary of State or resolution of the London county council may by virtue of subsection (4) or subsection (5) of this section have retrospective effect from a day before the commencement of this Act, but not before the first day of July, nineteen hundred and fifty-one, and may apply to the salary of a person dying or ceasing to hold office before the commencement of this Act.
Scotland
2 Lords Commissioners of Justiciary \(circuit allowances).
(1) The Lords Commissioners of Justiciary in Scotland shall be entitled to receive, in addition to their salaries, such allowances for circuit court expenses as the Secretary of State may from time to time, with the concurrence of the Treasury,...
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