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Ordered, by The House of Commons, to be Printed, 19 July 1927.

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[Bill 178]

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[The words enclosed in brackets and underlined were omitted by the Lords to avoid questions of privilege.]

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BILL

INTITULED

An Act to amend the law with respect to the A.D. 1927. constitution of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.

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E it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, 5 as follows:

Indian

1. (1) His Majesty may by letters patent appoint Power to two persons qualified as provided in this section to be appoint members of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, judges, &c. and may from time to time fill any vacancies caused by as addi10 death or otherwise in the offices of the persons so tional memappointed.

(2) A person shall be qualified under this section if he is a Privy Councillor and is or has been a judge of a court which is a High Court within the meaning of 15 clause (24) of section three of an Act of the Indian Legislature known as the General Clauses Act, 1897, or is a barrister, advocate or vakil of not less than fourteen years' standing who practices or has practised in British India.

20 (3) A person appointed a member of the Judicial Committee under this section shall hold his office during good behaviour subject to a power of removal by His Majesty on an address presented to His Majesty by both Houses of Parliament, but shall retire therefrom on 25 attaining the age of seventy-two years.

bers of the Judicial Committee.

A.D. 1927.

Repeal of limit on

number of dominion

judges

[(4) There shall be paid to each person appointed a member of the Judicial Committee under this section a yearly salary of two thousand pounds, and the said salary shall be charged on and paid out of the Consolidated Fund or the growing produce thereof.

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(5) If provision is made for the payment to any such person out of the revenues of India of any sum, not exceeding two thousand pounds, by way of increase of salary, that sum may be received by that person, and his salary shall be treated as being increased accordingly. 10 (6) His Majesty may, by Letters Patent, grant to any person appointed a member of the Judicial Committee under this section—

(a) who retires on attaining the age of seventy-two;

or

(b) who having served as such member for a period of five years or upwards is, before attaining such age as aforesaid, disabled by permanent infirmity to discharge the duties of his office;

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a pension by way of annuity to be continued during his 20 life of one thousand pounds a year, and any such pension shall be charged on and paid out of the Consolidated Fund or the growing produce thereof.

(7) Section thirty of the Judicial Committee Act, 1833, as amended by section four of the Appellate 25 Jurisdiction Act, 1887, shall be repealed, but nothing in this repeal shall in the case of any person who at the passing of this Act is entitled under that section to attend the sittings of the Judicial Committee, affect his right so to attend, or the payment to him of the allowance which 30 at the passing of this Act he is receiving under that section as so amended.

2. So much of the Judicial Committee (Amendment) Act, 1895, as imposes a limit on the number of persons who may become members of the Judicial Committee of 35 the Privy Council by reason of that Act, as amended

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