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Magistrates: Retirement

Question for Ministry of Justice

UIN 173004, tabled on 22 March 2021

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when he plans to bring forward legislative proposals to increase the retirement age for Magistrates.

Answered on

25 March 2021

On 8 March, we published the government response to the Judicial Mandatory Retirement Age Consultation, which set out our intention to increase the mandatory retirement age of judicial office holders, including magistrates, to 75. The legislative proposals will be brought forward when parliamentary time allows.

The legislation will include a transitional provision to enable retired magistrates who are younger than the new MRA to apply to return to the bench subject to business need. The process by which such applications are to be made and considered will be set out in due course.

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