This Act may be cited as the Judicature Amendment Act, 1920, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Judicature Act, 1908.

Every Judge holding office during good behaviour who has held office for a period of less than ten years but not less than five years, and who satisfies the Governor-General in Council that he has become incapable of performing the duties of his office by reason of any permanent infirmity, and thereupon resigns his office, shall be entitled to a superannuation allowance in proportion to the amount of his annual salary at the time of resigning, computed at the rate of three twenty-fourths of such salary increased by one twenty-fourth of such salary for each complete year (if any) during which he has held office in excess of five years, but not exceeding in any case an allowance of six twenty-fourths of such salary.

There shall be payable to the Judges of the Supreme Court out of the Consolidated Fund, without further appropriation than this section, the annual salaries following, that is to say: To the Chief Justice of New Zealand the sum of two thousand two hundred and fifty pounds, and to each of the other Judges of the Supreme Court the sum of two thousand pounds.

Section three of the Judicature Amendment Act, 1913, is hereby repealed.