§ Mr. Morganasked the Home Secretary what are the arrangements existing at the present time with regard to the superannuation of magistrates' clerks; and whether, in view of the fact that a pension scheme exists for county court officers, arrangements can be made for similar facilities to be made available to magistrates' clerks?
§ Sir S. HoareIn pursuance of local Acts, schemes have been brought into operation providing for the superannuation of full-time clerks to justices in some-nine400W boroughs; and the Local Government Superannuation Act, 1937, makes provision for the superannuation of all full-time clerks to justices as from the 1st April, 1939. The great majority of the clerks, however, are solicitors in private practice who give part of their time to the work of the courts. For these part-time clerks there is no pension scheme; but one of the matters to be considered by the Departmental Committee, which I have recently appointed, is the conditions of service, including the question of superannuation, of clerks to justices and their assistants.