Explanatory note

This Order amends Part I of Schedule 1 to the Judicial Pensions and Retirement Act 1993 by adding the offices of Recorder of London and Common Serjeant to the list of judicial offices which may be qualifying judicial offices for the purposes of the new arrangements for judicial pensions contained in Part I of that Act.

It further makes provision for the Common Council of the City of London to be discharged from the liability to pay pensions or other benefits under Part I and section 19 of the 1993 Act in respect of persons who have held the office of Recorder of London or Common Serjeant in the circumstances set out in the Order. The Order requires the Common Council instead to make payments to the Treasury.