JUDGES' REMUNERATION (AMENDMENT) BILL

Order for Second Reading read.

3.50 p.m.

The Minister for Finance (Mr Hon Sui Sen): Mr Speaker, Sir, I beg to move, "That the Bill be now read a Second time."

Provision for the payment of salaries of the Chief Justice and Judges in Singapore is made in the Judges' Remuneration Act (Chapter 7 of the Revised Edition). As a consequence of Government's decision to revise the salaries of Senior and Superscale officers from 1st March, 1973, the salaries of the Chief Justice and Judges have also been correspondingly increased. The salary of the Chief Justice has been increased from $3,500 per month to $7,500 per month, that of the most senior of the Puisne Judges from $2,700 per month to $6,000 per month, and the salaries of other Puisne Judges from $2,700 per month to $5,500 per month. These revisions have been effected administratively.

The purpose of this Bill is to give legal effect to the above revisions.

Mr Speaker, Sir, I beg to move.

Question put, and agreed to.

Bill accordingly read a Second time and committed to a Committee of the whole House.

The House immediately resolved itself into a Committee on the Bill. -[Mr Hon Sui Sen].

Bill considered in Committee; reported without amendment; read a Third time and passed.