PART IIMiscellaneous Amendments of Law relating to England and Wales.

25Amelioration of conditions qualifying Lord Chancellor's Legal Visitor for pension.

(1)

Section 128 of the M1Supreme Court of Judicature (Consolidation) Act 1925 (which relates to the pensions of certain officers) shall, in its application to the retirement of a person, after the commencement of this Act, from the office of Lord Chancellor's Legal Visitor, have effect as if, in subsection (1)(c) thereof (which prohibits the grant of a superannuation allowance to an officer under the age of seventy-two years unless he retires upon a medical certificate or has served fifteen years), for the words " fifteen years there were substituted the words " ten years ".

(2)

Any increase attributable to the foregoing subsection in the sums which, under section 118(2) of the said Act of 1925 or section 25(2) of the M2Administration of Justice (Pensions) Act 1950, are payable out of moneys provided by Parliament shall be paid out of moneys so provided.