Annuities to Retired Judges (Scotland) Act 1814
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1814 c. 94 |
(54 Geo. 3) C A P. XCIV.
[18th July 1814]
'WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Forty eighth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled Scotland,upon the Resignation of their Offices , it is enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for His Majesty, his Heirs and Successors, by His Majesty's Sign Manual, to give and grant unto any Person who shall have executed the Office of Lord President of the said Court of Session, or of the Lord Justice Clerk, or of the Chief Baron of the Court of Exchequer in Scotland , or of any Judge or Lord of Session, or of any Lord Commissioner of Justiciary, or of a Baron of the said Court of Exchequer, as well before as after the passing of the said recited Act, and who shall have respectively resigned any such Office, an Annuity or yearly Sum not exceeding Three Fourth Parts of the Salary appertaining to each such Office at the Resignation thereof, to commence and be paid in manner therein mentioned: And Whereas by another Act passed in the Fiftieth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled Scotland,and Judges in Ireland, certain Augmentations were made to the Salaries of the said Judges respectively: And Whereas certain of the Judges of the said Courts who resigned their Offices after the passing of the said first recited Act, and before the passing of the said last recited Act, have received Grants of Annuities of less Amount than those Judges of the same Courts who have resigned or may resign their Offices since the passing of the said last recited Act, and it is reasonable and expedient that the Judges who had resigned their Offices before the passing of the said last recited Act should be entitled to similar Annuities from and after the passing of this Act, as if they had resigned the same after the passing of the said Act of the Fiftieth Year of His present Majesty:' May it therefore please Your Majesty, that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by The King'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 by the Authority of the same, That it shall be lawful to His Majesty, his Heirs and Successors, to give and...
To continue reading
Request your trial