HC Deb 17 February 1937 vol 320 cc1318-9

Resolution reported, That it is expedient—

  1. (a) to provide for increasing to the amounts hereinafter specified the annual salaries charged on and payable out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom in respect of the following offices, that is to say, the offices—
    1. (i) of county court judges in England and Wales to two thousand pounds;
    2. (ii) of the chief of the metropolitan police magistrates to two thousand three hundred pounds;
    3. (iii) of other metropolitan police magistrates to two thousand pounds;
    4. (iv) of the recorder of Londonderry, the county court judge and chairman of quarter sessions for the counties of Armagh and Fermanagh, and the county 1319 court judge and chairman of quarter sessions for the county of Down, respectively, so long (in each case) as the office is held by the existing holder, to such amount as is equal to the total annual remuneration now paid in respect of those offices;
  2. (b) to provide for the annual salaries charged on and payable out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom in respect of the offices of the chairman and of the other members of the Scottish Land Court, and the annual salaries payable out of moneys provided by Parliament in respect of the offices of the Commissioners of Crown Lands (other than the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries), of the Lyon King of Arms, of the Secretary to the Registrar-General of Births, Deaths, and Marriages in Scotland, and of the Lyon Clerk, being of such amounts as may be determined by the Treasury, and for the annual salaries payable out of moneys provided by Parliament to the clerks attached to the judges of the Supreme Court, being of such amounts as may be determined by the Lord Chancellor with the concurrence of the Treasury, so, however, that any salary of which the amount is to be determined in accordance with the provisions of this paragraph shall, so long as it continues to be payable to the existing holder of the office or employment in respect of which it is payable, be at an annual rate not less than that of the total remuneration at present paid to him in respect of that office or employment;
  3. (c) to authorise the payment out of the Consolidated Fund and out of moneys provided by Parliament, respectively, of such sums as may become payable in consequence of such provision as aforesaid;
  4. (d) to provide for such consequential amendments of the enactments relating to the salaries aforesaid as may be necessary."

Resolution agreed to.

Bill ordered to be brought in upon the said Resolution by Sir John Simon, Mr. Elliot, the Attorney-General, the Lord Advocate, Lieut.-Colonel Colville, and the Solicitor-General.