Judicial Pensions Act 1959

7 Pensions granted before commencement of this Act

(1) The annual amount of any pension payable under the relevant pension enactment to a person who retired before the ninth day of July, nineteen hundred and fifty-nine (being the date of the passing of the [7 & 8 Eliz. 2. c. 50.] Pensions (Increase) Act, 1959) shall be increased by twelve per cent.

(2) In ascertaining the rate of a widow's or children's pension payable under Part I of the Administration of Justice (Pensions) Act, 1950, by reference to a pension which is increased under subsection (1) of this section, no account shall be taken of the increase.

(3) The annual amount of any pension payable under the relevant pension enactment, the amount of any lump sum payable under the said Part I and the annual amount of any widow's or children's pension payable under the said Part I to or in respect of a person who, at any time after the tenth day of November, nineteen hundred and fifty-nine and before the commencement of this Act, retired from an office listed in the First Schedule to this Act, or died while holding such an office, shall be the amount which would have been payable if this Act had been in force at the time of his retirement or death; and if before the commencement of this Act there was made to any such person or his legal personal representatives any payment by way of lump sum of an amount less than that payable under this subsection, there may be paid to him or them an amount equal to the deficiency.