SUPERANNUA-
TION.
Subject
Superannuation for persons appointed from outside public service.
Existing Position
Frccosal
No special pension. Such persons woulċ be appointed on agreement with usual gratuity at the end of a national 21 yea tour. This is considered tirely adequate.
J. MAGISTRATES.
Salary.
EXPERIENCE OF CIVIL WORK.
Two grades of magistrate on the Master Pay Scale. One grade on the superscale.
No change. If unifying of salary is desirable, Chief Justice's policy of requiring "older" candidates for appoint- ment as magistrate will produce generalf uniform salary on the Master Pay Scale for magistrates, having regard to grant of increments for professional experience beyond minimum. Fixed salary at a high level is neither practical nor acceptabl
Experience of civil work for Prospective
District Judges.
Magistrates have no civil juris- diction. Such as they had has been taken away in recent years.
No change in the jurisdiction of magis- trates. Chief Justice's policy is that magistrates and others who are likely to be appointed to the District Court should have experience in the Supreme Court Registry beforehand - thus providing some experience of civil matters. Chief Justice does not favour a civil juris- diction for magistrates.
is the . Government's policy that changes in relation to aller civil matters must be in the firection of the new labour tribunal and the proposed small claims tribunal'ere proceedings are informal and conducted in the Chinese language!