Judicial Pensions and Retirement Act 1993

Judicial Pensions and Retirement Act
Act of Parliament

Other legislation
Replaces Judicial Pensions Act 1959
Text of the Judicial Pensions and Retirement Act 1993 as in force today (including any amendments) within the United Kingdom, from legislation.gov.uk

The Judicial Pensions and Retirement Act 1993 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that strengthened the mandatory retirement provisions previously instituted by the Judicial Pensions Act 1959 for members of the British judiciary.

While the 1959 Act forbade service past age 75 by any judges appointed thereafter (Lord Denning being the last exempt jurist), the 1993 Act made the ordinary retirement age 70, and while enabling a minister (presumably the Lord Chancellor) to allow individual judges to remain in office until 75, it expressly forbids persons aged over 75 to hold any judicial post whatsoever. An exception is the post of Lord Chancellor, a political appointee.

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