Judicial Pensions and Retirement Act 1993

6 (1) In subsection (1)(c)(ii) of each of the following enactments (which give the meaning of “period of childhood and full-time education”), that is to say—

(a) section 9 of the 1951 Act,

(b) section 125 of the 1959 Act,

(c) section 7 of the 1960 Act,

for the words from “do not exceed” to “a year” there shall be substituted the words “do not exceed the maximum allowable remuneration”.

(2) In paragraph 1(c)(ii) of Article 9 of the 1964 Order (which gives the meaning of “period of childhood and full-time education”), for the words from “do not exceed” to “a year” there shall be substituted the words “do not exceed the maximum allowable remuneration”.

(3) The subsection set out in sub-paragraph (4) below shall be inserted—

(a) numbered as subsection (2A), after subsection (2) of section 9 of the 1951 Act;

(b) numbered as subsection (2A), after subsection (2) of section 125 of the 1959 Act;

(c) numbered as subsection (4A), after subsection (4) of section 7 of the 1960 Act.

(4) The subsection inserted by sub-paragraph (3) above is as follows—

“( ) For the purposes of subsection (1)(c)(ii), the “maximum allowable remuneration” at any time is an annual rate (£1,614 a year, at the passing of the Judicial Pensions and Retirement Act 1993) equal to that at which a pension of £250 a year—

(a) first awarded under the principal civil service pension scheme (within the meaning of that Act) on 1st June 1972, and

(b) increased from time to time by the amount of increase that would be applied under the [1971 c. 56.] Pensions (Increase) Act 1971 to such a pension,

would (as so increased) be payable at that time, rounding any resulting fraction of £1 up to the next whole £1.”

(5) A paragraph in the same terms as the subsection set out in sub-paragraph (4) above, but with the substitution of the word “paragraph” for the word “subsection”, shall be inserted, numbered as paragraph (2A), after paragraph (2) of Article 9 of the 1964 Order.

(6) Paragraph 18 of Schedule 1 to the [1966 c. 27 (N.I.).] Superannuation (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) 1966 (orders increasing the earnings limit in subsection (1)(c)(ii) of each of the sections specified in sub-paragraph (1) above) shall cease to have effect.