JUDGES AND MAGISTRATES (SALARIES) ACT
Statutory Text (4 Articles)
CHAPTER 175
JUDGES AND MAGISTRATES (SALARIES) ACT
To prescribe the salaries of Judges and of Magistrates.
21st September, 1962
ACT II of 1962, as amended by Act XII of 1965; Legal Notices: 16 of
1965, 77 of 1967, 70 of 1968, 49 of 1970, 94 of 1971, 47 of 1973, 52 of
1974, 55, 148 of 1975, 61 of 1976, 47 of 1977, 3, 41 of 1978, 32 of 1979, 25
of 1980, 3 of 1981, 2 of 1982; Act XIII of 1983; Legal Notices: 26 of 1990,
27 of 1991, 12 of 1992, 33 of 1993, 10 of 1994, 9 of 1995, 31 of 1996, 66,
184 of 1998, 12 of 1999, 13 of 2000, 18 of 2001, 42 of 2002, 33 of 2003, 48
of 2004, 43, 157 of 2005, 34 of 2006, 410 of 2007, 46 of 2011, 9, 378 of
2012; 5 of 2013, 23 of 2014, 25 of 2017, 19 of 2018, 262 of 2018,14 of
2019,21 of 2020, 12 of 2021 , 2 of 2022, 11 of 2023 and 4 and 257 of
2024,11 of 2025 and 9 of 2026.
The short title of this Act is the Judges and Magistrates
(Salaries) Act.
(Article 2)
Basic Pay
Chief Justice ..............................................
€85,105
Other Judges ..............................................
€75,764
Magistrates .................................................
€66,942
There shall be paid to the holders of the offices specified in
the first column of the Schedule, the annual salaries respectively
specified opposite to each such office in the respective columns of
the Schedule during the year to which each of the second to the
third columns of the schedule refers or such greater amount as may
be specified by an order of the Prime Minister published in the
Gazette. The said salaries shall be payable as from the 1st day of
January of each specified year.