Judicial Pensions and Retirement Act 1993

28 (1) In subsection (3) of section 3 of the [1989 c. 32.] Fair Employment (Northern Ireland) Act 1989 (which requires the President and Vice President of the Industrial Tribunals and the Fair Employment Tribunal each to vacate his office at the end of the completed year of service in which he attains the age of 72), for the words from “at the end of” onwards there shall be substituted the words “on the day on which he attains the age of 70, but subject to subsection (4) below and subsections (4) to (6) of section 26 of the Judicial Pensions and Retirement Act 1993 (power to authorise continuance in office up to the age of 75)”.

(2) In regulation 3 of the [S.R. & O. (N.I.) 1965 No. 112.] Industrial Tribunals Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1965 (membership of tribunals), at the beginning of paragraph (5) there shall be inserted the words “Subject to paragraph (6)” and after that paragraph there shall be inserted—

“(6) A member of a panel of chairmen appointed under paragraph (2) shall vacate his office on the day on which he attains the age of seventy years, but subject to section 26(4) to (6) of the Judicial Pensions and Retirement Act 1993 (Lord Chancellor’s power to authorise continuance in office up to the age of 75).”