Judges' Remuneration (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 2011

This Act may be cited as the Judges’ Remuneration

This Act comes into operation on 1 January 2012.

The Judges’ Remuneration Act 1971 [Act 45], which is referred to as the “principal Act” in this Act, is amended in section 11 by substituting for the words “twelve and a half years”, wherever they appear, the words “twenty years”.

The payment of derivative pension in consequence of the amendment made under section 2 of this Act to persons other than those mentioned in subsection 11(3) of the principal Act, if the period of twelve and a half years has expired before 1 January 2012, shall be dealt with as follows:

the period of twenty years shall be calculated from the date of the retirement of the Judge;

the persons shall not be entitled to the payment of derivative pension for the period after the expiration of the period of twelve and a half years until 31 December 2011; and

the payment of derivative pension shall only be made from 1 January 2012.