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    High Court Judges Bill, 2021

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    This bill aims to amend the High Court Judges (Salaries and Conditions of Service) Act, 1954 and the Supreme Court Judges (Salaries and Conditions of Service) Act, 1958 to clarify that retired judges are entitled to additional pension amounts starting from the first day of the month they turn the specified age, such as 80, and not the first day of entering that age bracket. It proposes inserting an explanation to overrule high court interpretations that pension hikes apply from the first day of the age year. The objective is to ensure additional pension amounts are received only after judges complete the ages listed in the acts.

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    This bill aims to amend the High Court Judges (Salaries and Conditions of Service) Act, 1954 and the Supreme Court Judges (Salaries and Conditions of Service) Act, 1958 to clarify that retired judges are entitled to additional pension amounts starting from the first day of the month they turn the specified age, such as 80, and not the first day of entering that age bracket. It proposes inserting an explanation to overrule high court interpretations that pension hikes apply from the first day of the age year. The objective is to ensure additional pension amounts are received only after judges complete the ages listed in the acts.

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    This bill aims to amend the High Court Judges (Salaries and Conditions of Service) Act, 1954 and the Supreme Court Judges (Salaries and Conditions of Service) Act, 1958 to clarify that retired judges are entitled to additional pension amounts starting from the first day of the month they turn the specified age, such as 80, and not the first day of entering that age bracket. It proposes inserting an explanation to overrule high court interpretations that pension hikes apply from the first day of the age year. The objective is to ensure additional pension amounts are received only after judges complete the ages listed in the acts.

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    AS INTRODUCED IN LOK SABHA

    Bill No. 144 of 2021

    THE HIGH COURT AND SUPREME COURT JUDGES (SALARIES AND


    CONDITIONS OF SERVICE) AMENDMENT BILL, 2021
    A

    BILL
    further to amend the High Court Judges (Salaries and Conditions of Service) Act, 1954 and
    the Supreme Court Judges (Salaries and Conditions of Service) Act, 1958.
    BE it enacted by Parliament in the Seventy-second Year of the Republic of India as
    follows:—
    CHAPTER I
    PRELIMINARY
    5 1. This Act may be called the High Court and Supreme Court Judges (Salaries and Short title.
    Conditions of Service) Amendment Act, 2021.
    CHAPTER II
    AMENDMENT TO THE HIGH COURT JUDGES (SALARIES AND CONDITIONS OF SERVICE) ACT, 1954
    2. In section 17B of the High Court Judges (Salaries and Conditions of Service) Amendment of
    28 of 1954. 1 0 Act, 1954, the following Explanation shall be inserted, namely:— section 17B.

    "Explanation.—For the removal of doubts, it is hereby clarified that any


    entitlement for additional quantum of pension or family pension shall be, and shall be
    deemed always to have been, from the first day of the month in which the pensioner
    or family pensioner completes the age specified in the first column of the scale.".
    2
    CHAPTER III
    AMENDMENT TO THE SUPREME COURT JUDGES (SALARIES AND CONDITIONS OF SERVICE)
    ACT, 1958
    Amendment of 3. In section 16B of the Supreme Court Judges (Salaries and Conditions of Service)
    section 16B. Act, 1958, the following Explanation shall be inserted, namely:— 5 41 of 1958.

    "Explanation.—For the removal of doubts, it is hereby clarified that any


    entitlement for additional quantum of pension or family pension shall be, and shall be
    deemed always to have been, from the first day of the month in which the pensioner
    or family pensioner completes the age specified in the first column of the scale.".
    STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS
    The High Court Judges (Salaries and Conditions of Service) Act, 1954 was enacted to
    regulate salaries and certain conditions of service of the Judges of High Courts. The Supreme
    Court Judges (Salaries and Conditions of Service) Act, 1958 was enacted to regulate salaries
    and certain conditions of service of the Judges of the Supreme Court.
    2. Vide the High Court and Supreme Court Judges (Salaries and Conditions of Service)
    Amendment Act, 2009, section 17B and section 16B were respectively inserted in the said
    Acts to provide that every retired Judge or after his death, the family, as the case may be,
    shall be entitled to an additional quantum of pension or family pension in accordance with
    the scale specified therein. Accordingly, the additional quantum of pension to retired Judges
    of the High Court and Supreme Court is being sanctioned on completing the age of 80 years,
    85 years, 90 years, 95 years and 100 years, as the case may be.
    3. However, in a writ petition filed by a retired High Court Judge, Justice Virendra Dutt
    Gyani, the Hon'ble High Court of Gauhati vide its order dated 15th March, 2018 has held that
    benefit of additional quantum of pension as per section 17B of the aforesaid High Court
    Judges Act in the first slab would be available to a retired Judge from the first day of his
    80th year.
    4. Subsequently, the Hon'ble High Court of Madhya Pradesh also, vide its order dated
    3rd December, 2020 passed in writ petitions filed by the Association of Retired Judges of
    Supreme Court and High Court of India, has directed respondent Union of India to construe
    the word "from" as it appears on the slab under section 16B of the 1958 Act and section 17B
    of the 1954 Act as the first day of entering the minimum age of the slab (i.e., 80,85,90,95 and
    100 years) along with other consequential benefits to the petitioners.
    5. The legislative intent behind insertion of section 17B and section 16B respectively
    in the aforesaid Acts was to provide benefit of additional quantum of pension to a retired
    Judge from the first day of the month in which he completes the age specified in the first
    column of the scale and not from the first day of his entering the age specified therein as so
    interpreted by the High Courts. Therefore, it is proposed to insert an Explanation in
    section 17B of the said High Court Judges Act and in section 16B of the said Supreme Court
    Judges Act to clarify the intention and to ensure that there is no scope for any other
    interpretation.
    6. The Bill seeks to achieve the above objectives.

    KIREN RIJIJU.
    NEW DELHI;
    The 24th November, 2021.

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    LOK SABHA

    ————

    BILL

    further to amend the High Court Judges (Salaries and Conditions of Service) Act, 1954 and
    the Supreme Court Judges (Salaries and Conditions of Service) Act, 1958.

    ————

    (Shri Kiren Rijiju, Minister of Law and Justice)

    MGIPMRND—1151LS(S3)—25-11-2021.

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