Explanatory note

This Order is a pension order, as defined by Schedule 4 to the Human Rights Act 1998. It makes provision for a judge appointed to the European Court of Human Rights, who was a member, either of one of the judicial pension schemes constituted by the Judicial Pensions Act 1981, or of the judicial pension scheme constituted by Part I of the Judicial Pensions and Retirement Act 1993, to remain a member of that scheme on the terms that would have applied had he not been so appointed.