Judicial Offices (Salaries and and Pensions) Act 1957
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Judicial Offices (Salaries and and Pensions) Act, 1957
(5 & 6 Eliz. 2) CHAPTER 46
An Act to provide for increasing the salaries of the recorders of Liverpool and Manchester, of county court judges and of metropolitan police magistrates; to make further provision as to the pensions of the said recorders; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.
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 Increases of salaries.
(1) There shall be paid—
(a ) to the recorder of Liverpool, during his service as a judge of the Crown Court at Liverpool and the Crown Court at Manchester, and to the recorder of Manchester, during his service as a judge of those courts, a salary of four thousand five hundred pounds a year, instead of the salary of four thousand pounds a year now payable;
(b ) to every county court judge a salary of three thousand seven hundred and fifty pounds a year, instead of the salary of two thousand eight hundred pounds a year now payable;
(c ) to the chief of the metropolitan police magistrates a salary of three thousand seven hundred and fifty pounds a year, instead of the salary of two thousand eight hundred pounds a year now payable;
(d ) to every metropolitan police magistrate (other than the chief of them) a salary of three thousand four hundred pounds a year, instead of the salary of two thousand five hundred pounds a year now payable.
(2) The salary payable under this section to a recorder, to a county court judge or to a metropolitan police magistrate—
(a ) shall be charged on and paid out of the Consolidated Fund;
(b ) shall (subject to the next following subsection) begin from the date of his appointment and accrue due from day to day; and
(c ) shall be payable at such intervals, not exceeding three months, as the Treasury think fit.
(3) The preceding provisions of this section shall have effect as from the eighteenth day of April, nineteen hundred and fifty-seven (the salary under this section of a recorder, 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 to whom a salary is payable under this section and who held office on that day, or was appointed after that day and before the passing of this Act, shall be deemed, for the purposes 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) If, at any time after the passing of this Act, it appears to the Lord Chancellor that any of the salaries specified in subsection (1) of this section...
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