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33 2001

MINISTERIAL, PARLIAMENTARY AND JUDICIAL OFFICES AND OIREACHTAS MEMBERS (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT, 2001

PART 5

Amendment of Courts (Supplemental Provisions) Act, 1961

Interpretation: Part 5.

30. —In this Part, “the 1961 Act” means the Courts (Supplemental provisions) Act, 1961 .

Amendment of section 46 of the 1961 Act — provisions in relation to remuneration and pensions of judges and justices.

31. —Section 46 of the 1961 Act (as amended by section 1 of the Courts (Supplemental Provisions) (Amendment) (No. 2) Act, 1968 ) is amended—

(a) by substituting for subsections (1), (2) and (3) the following subsections:

“(1) On and from 25 September, 2000—

(a) the Chief Justice is entitled to be paid remuneration at the rate of £120,293 per year, and

(b) each of the other judges of the Supreme Court is entitled to be paid remuneration at the rate of £104,254 per year.

(2) On and from 25 September, 2000—

(a) the President of the High Court is entitled to be paid remuneration at the rate of £108,321 per year, and

(b) each of the other judges of the High Court is entitled to be paid remuneration at the rate of £96,002 per year.

(3) On and from 25 September, 2000—

(a) the President of the Circuit Court is entitled to be paid remuneration at the rate of £96,002 per year, and

(b) each of the other judges of the Circuit Court is entitled to be paid remuneration at the rate of £75,548 per year.

(3A) On and from 25 September, 2000—

(a) the President of the District Court is entitled to be paid remuneration at the rate of £75,548 per year, and

(b) a judge of the District Court is entitled to be paid remuneration at the rate of £62,762 per year.

(3B) Remuneration payable under this section is to be paid in monthly instalments.”,

(b) in subsection (4), by substituting the following paragraphs for paragraphs (a) and (b):

“(a) the remuneration payable under this Act to a judge of the Supreme Court, the High Court, the Circuit Court or the District Court, and

(b) the pension payable under this Act to a judge of the Supreme Court, the High Court, the Circuit Court or the District Court, and”,

and

(c) by inserting the following subsection after subsection (9):

“(10) Every order made by the Government under subsection (9) is required to be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as practicable after it is made.”.

Amendment of the 1961 Act — insertion of section 46A (remuneration to be adjusted automatically by reference to salary increases in Civil Service).

32. —The 1961 Act is amended by inserting the following section after section 46:

“Remuneration to be adjusted automatically by reference to salary increases in Civil Service.

46A.—(1) Whenever remuneration in the Civil Service is increased with effect from a particular day in accordance with agreements or arrangements that have effect on a general basis in the Civil Service (whether or not they also apply in relation to persons employed other than in the Civil Service), the amounts of remuneration payable under section 46 are, by the operation of this section, increased on and from that day by the same proportion.

(2) It is not necessary to make an order under section 46(9) in order to give effect to an increase made by the operation of subsection (1).

(3) In this section, ‘Civil Service’ has the meaning given by the Civil Service Commissioners Act, 1956 .”.