S.I. No. 400/2016 - Courts (Supplemental Provisions) Act 1961 (Judicial Remuneration) (Section 46(9)) Order 2016.

1. This Order may be cited as the Courts (Supplemental Provisions) Act 1961 (Judicial Remuneration) (Section 46(9)) Order 2016.

2. This Order comes into operation on 1 January 2017.

3. This Order applies to a judge whose appointment to the judicial office concerned occurred before the commencement of

section 10

of the

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Act 2011

(No. 39 of 2011).

4. The annual sum payable by way of remuneration to a judge holding a judicial office specified in column (1) of the Schedule is the sum specified in column (2) of that Schedule opposite the judicial office specified in column (1).

SCHEDULE

Judicial Office

Annual sum payable by way of remuneration

(1)

(2)

The Chief Justice

€231,726

An ordinary judge of the Supreme Court

€202,622

The President of the High Court

€215,556

The President of the Circuit Court

€196,155

An ordinary judge of the High Court

€191,306

The President of the District Court

€150,763

An ordinary judge of the Circuit Court or a specialist judge of the Circuit Court

€145,686

An ordinary judge of the District Court

€127,234

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Government,

19 July 2016.

ENDA KENNY,

Taoiseach.

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of

26

th July

, 2016.

The Government, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by subsection (9) of

section 46

of the

Courts (Supplemental Provisions) Act 1961

(No. 39 of 1961), and having had regard to the matter specified in paragraph (

b

) of that subsection, hereby order as follows