Judges' Remuneration Act 1954
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1954 c. 27 |
| Year | 1954 |
Judges' Remuneration Act, 1954
(2 & 3 Eliz. 2) CHAPTER 27
An Act to increase the salaries attached to certain high judicial offices and to regulate the payments to be made to Judges of the High Court in England in respect of their expenses when acting under commissions of assize and other commissions.
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 by the authority of the same, as follows:—
1 Increase of salary etc.
(1) The salary payable to the holder of any of the following offices, that is to say,—
(a ) Lord Chancellor or Lord of Appeal in Ordinary;
(b ) Lord Chief Justice, Master of the Rolls, President of the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division, Lord Justice of Appeal or puisne Judge of the High Court of Justice in England;
(c ) Lord Justice General, Lord Justice Clerk or Senator of the College of Justice in Scotland;
(d ) Lord Chief Justice, Ordinary Judge of the Court of Appeal or Judge of the High Court of Justice other than Lord Chief Justice in Northern Ireland;
shall be increased by two thousand pounds a year in the case of the Lord Chancellor and Lord Chief Justice of England, and by three thousand pounds a year in any other case:
Provided that the increase in the salary payable to the holder of an office shall not affect the amount of any pension or other benefit payable in respect of service in the office under the Judges' Pensions (Scotland) Act, 1808 , or section nineteen of the Supreme Court of Judicature Act (Ireland), 1877 , or under the Administration of Justice (Pensions) Act, 1950 .
(2) The judges of the High Court of Justice in England shall be entitled to receive, in addition to their salaries, such allowances as the Lord Chancellor may from time to time, with the concurrence of the Treasury, determine in respect of their expenses when acting under a commission of assize or other commission issued under section seventy of the Supreme Court of Judicature (Consolidation) Act, 1925 ; and any such allowance shall be paid out of moneys provided by Parliament.
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