JUDGES SALARIES, ALLOWANCES AND PENSIONS ACT (as amended 2006) DISTRIBUTED BY VERITAS VERITAS MAKES EVERY EFFORT TO ENSURE THE PROVISION OF RELIABLE INFORMATION, BUT CANNOT TAKE LEGAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR INFORMATION SUPPLIED. CHAPTER 7:08 JUDGES SALARIES, ALLOWANCES AND PENSIONS ACT as amended1 Acts 16/1964, 2/1969, 50/1971, 34/1972, 14/1974, 11/1975, 29/1981 (s. 59), 24/1987 (s. 7), 11/1991(s. 5), 3/1994, 6/2005 (s.4 2); R.G.N. 386/1964 AN ACT to prescribe the salaries of judges and acting judges of the Supreme Court and the High Court; and to make provision in regard to the payment of allowances to those judges and acting judges and in regard to the payment of pensions to those judges and their widows. [Date of commencement: 19th May, 1964.] 1 Short title This Act may be cited as the Judges Salaries, Allowances and Pensions Act [Chapter 7:08]. 2 Interpretation In this Act— “Chief Justice” means the Chief Justice of Zimbabwe; “pension benefit” means a pension, commutation of pension, gratuity or other like allowance or refund of pension contributions, including any interest payable thereon, for a person in respect of his service as a judge or in respect of any ill-health or injury arising out of and in the course of his official duties or for any spouse, child, dependant or personal representative of such a person in respect of such service, ill-health or injury. 3 Remuneration of judges (1) There shall be paid to the Chief Justice, the judges of the Supreme Court, the Judge President of the High Court and the other judges of the High Court, and to any person or judge acting in any of those capacities, a salary at such rate as may in each class or case be fixed from time to time by the President. (2) A judge, including an acting judge, may be paid such allowances or may be granted such benefits or privileges as may be approved by the President. (3) The salaries and allowances referred to in this section shall be paid out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund which is hereby appropriated to the purpose. 4 Pensions (1) The President shall fix the terms and conditions subject to which pensions benefits shall be paid. 1 This document sets out the text of the Act as at the 28th March, 2006. 2 General Laws Amendment Act, 2005 (No. 6 of 2005). This is the only amendment since the publication of the Revised Edition of the Statutes in 1996. 1 [Chapter 7:08]