The Judicial Pensions and Retirement Act 1993 (Addition of Qualifying Judicial Offices) Order 1999

Amendment of Schedules 1 and 5 to the Judicial Pensions and Retirement Act 1993

2.  In Part II of Schedule 1 to the Judicial Pensions and Retirement Act 1993 (offices which may be qualifying judicial offices for the purposes of Part I of the Act) there shall be added at the end of the entry headed “Other officers whose holders are appointed by the Lord Chancellor” the following offices–

“Member of a panel constituted under section 6(1) of the Social Security Act 1998(1) who–

(a) is appointed to serve full-time as a member of that panel; and

(b) either–

(i) has a general qualification (construed in accordance with section 71 of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990(2)); or

(ii) is an advocate or solicitor in Scotland

Member of a panel constituted under Article 7(1) of the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1998(3) who–

(a) is appointed to serve full-time as a member of that panel; and

(b) is a barrister or solicitor”.

(1)

1998 c. 14.

(2)

1990 c. 41.

(3)

S.I. 1998/1506 (N.I. 10).