Hong Kong Ordinances

DISTRICT COURT ORDINANCE - SECT 11A

Term of office of District Judges

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 25 of 1998 s. 2

(1) A judge shall vacate his office when he attains the retiring  age.

(2) Notwithstanding the fact that he has attained the retiring age, a person
holding the office of a judge may continue in office for so long after
attaining the retiring age as may be necessary to enable him to deliver
judgment or to do any other thing in relation to proceedings that were
commenced before him before he attained that age.

(3) Notwithstanding subsection (1), the term of office of a judge who was
appointed to be such judge before 1 January 1987 may be extended for a
specified period or periods not exceeding 5 years in the aggregate by the
Chief Executive acting in accordance with the recommendation of the Judicial
Service Commission, and in any such case the judge shall accordingly be
regarded as having attained the retiring age at the expiration of the
specified period or periods. (Amended 25 of 1998 s. 2)

(4) A judge may at any time resign his office by notice in writing addressed
to the Chief Executive. (Amended 25 of 1998 s. 2)

(5) In this section-

"judge" (法官) means a District Judge;

"retiring age" (退休年齡) means-

   (a)  in relation to a judge who was appointed to be such judge before 1
        January 1987, the age of 60 years; and

   (b)  in relation to a judge who was appointed to be such judge on or after
        1 January 1987, the age of 65 years. (Added 26 of 1997 s. 4)

"judge" (法官)

"retiring age" (退休年齡)