Judges' Remuneration Act 1971 · Updated to 1 Jan 2026 · Part III · Pensions and Other Benefits of Judges and Dependants
5. Period for maximum pension
Official textFrom Laws of Malaysia Online, unchanged
For the purpose of computing a Judge’s pension, the period of service for him to qualify for maximum pension shall be 18 years service as a Judge.
Judge
“Judge” means a Judge of the Federal Court, of the Court of Appeal or of the High Court and includes the Chief Justice, President and a Chief Judge;
For the purposes of subsection (1), where a Judge has, as required by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong under paragraph 8C(1)(b), relinquished his office in order to serve in another capacity for any period in the national interest and having completed his tour of duty in the other capacity—
is immediately reappointed to the office of a Judge, the period of his service as a Judge before, and the period during which he served in that other capacity after, he relinquished his office as a Judge shall be counted as period of service as a Judge; or
is not reappointed to the office of a Judge by virtue of him having reached his retirement age pursuant to subsection 8C(3), the period of his service as a Judge before, and the period during which he served in that other capacity until he attains his retirement age after, he relinquished his
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office as a Judge shall be counted as period of service as a
Judge.
Terms defined in s 1A
Judge
Defined · s 1A“Judge” means a Judge of the Federal Court, of the Court of Appeal or of the High Court and includes the Chief Justice, President and a Chief Judge;
remuneration
Defined · s 1A“remuneration” shall have the meaning assigned to that expression in Clause (2) of Article 160 of the Federal Constitution;
retirement
Defined · s 1A“retirement” means— (a) retirement from the office of Judge under paragraph 8(a); Judges’ Remuneration 9 (b) retirement from such office under section 8A or 8B; (c) resignation from such office under paragraph 8(c); or (d) ceasing to hold such office under paragraph 8(d);
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