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WENDESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1988

IN THE CASE OF DISTRICT COURT JUDGES, IT HAD BEEN

AFTER JANUARY 60 TO 65 FOR THOSE APPOINTED ON OR REMAINED AT 60 FOR THOSE APPOINTED BEFORE THAT DATE.

1.

RAISED FROM 1987, BUT

THE RETIREMENT AGE

REGISTRAR MEMBER, SPECIALISED

WILL BR OF THE SUPREME

LANDS

TRIBUNAL,

TRIBUNALS

AND

"THE PRESENT BILL PROVIDES THAT RAISED TO 65 FOR THE REGISTRAR AND DEPUTY

REGISTRARS, ASSISTANT COURT, AND 60 FOR

OVER PRESIDING OFFICERS JUDICIAL MAGISTRATES," HE SAID.

ON

OFFICERS JUDICIAL

PENSION ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE MIRRORED THE NEW PENSION SCHEME FOR THE CIVIL SERVICE, SIR DAVID TWO SPECIAL FEATURES WOULD BE INTRODUCED.

WHICH

SAID

MONTH

FIRST, PENSION SERVICE WOULD INCREASE AT THE RATE OF ONE

AND SECONDLY, A FOR EACH MONTH OF SERVICE AFTER THE AGE OF 50; MINIMUM PENSION EQUIVALENT TO ONE QUARTER OF SALARY WOULD BE GRANTED TO OFFICERS RETIRED ON MEDICAL GROUNDS.

"THE

SPECIAL

PROVISION

UNDER

25

WILL DOUBLE THE 50. HOWEVER, SERVICE

CLAUSE STANDARD PENSION EARNINGS RATE OVER THE AGE OF BELOW 50 WILL CONTINUE TO BARN PENSION AT THE STANDARD RATE.

"THE

OTHER

SPECIAL

FEATURE IN OFFICERS RETIRED WITH SHORT SERVICE ON

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GUARANTEES THAT CLAUSE GROUNDS OF ILL HEALTH WILL RECEIVE A MINIMUM PENSION EQUIVALENT TO ONE-QUARTER OF SALARY.

h SIR

TO ENSURE THAT "THIS BROADLY FOLLOWS UNITED KINGDOM PRACTICE SUCH OFFICERS WILL RECEIVE A REASONABLE SUM IN PENSION BENEFITS, DAVID SAID.

SIR

DAVID

EXPLAINED

THAT

THESE

THAT

PROPOSALS RECOGNISED LATER IN LIFE AND THAT, JUDICIAL OFFICERS WERE NORMALLY APPOINTED UNDER EXISTING ARRANGEMENTS, THEY WERE UNABLE EITHER TO PURSUE A CAREER OR EARN A SATISFACTORY PENSION.

LONG

JUDICIARY COUNTERPARTS.

10 TO ARE

15

YEARS

ONLY LAWYERS WITH ADEQUATE "BECAUSE IT IS DESIRABLE THAT

OFFICE, JUDICIAL ΤΟ

THOSE WHO JOIN THE EXPERIENCE ARE APPOINTED

SERVICE PUBLIC THAN

OLDER

THEIR

"THIS IS PERCEIVED AS ONE OF LOCAL CANDIDATES FROM COMING FORWARD,

THE FACTORS DETERRING SUITABLE

SIR DAVID SAID.

*

"IT

IS

IMPORTANT THAT THE

MORE

SENIOR

PRACTITIONERS

ARE DETERRED BY

ENCOURAGED TO SEEK JUDICIAL OFFICE AND THAT THEY ARE NOT THEIR INABILITY TO EARN A WORTHWHILE PENSION.

"THE NEW ARRANGEMENTS ARE THEREFORE ESSENTIAL TO ACHIEVE THIS."

JUDICIAL OFFICERS WOULD BE ENGAGED ON

SIR DAVID ADDED THAT THE BILL PROVIDED THAT APPOINTED AFTER THE INTRODUCTION OF THE SCHENK THESE NEW TERMS.

/SERVING OFFICERS