Amendments to the Pension Scheme Regulations for Members of the International Court of Justice

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1961.

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Adopts the text annexed to the present resolution as revised Pension Scheme Regulations for members of the Internatfonal Court of Justice;

Decides that the revised Regulations shall come into force on 1 January 1961 and shall supersede the Regulations contained in the annex to General Assembly resolution 86 (I) of 11 December 1946, as amemkd by resolution 1408 (XIV) of l Decemher 1959.

954th plenary me,'linq,

18 December 1 Q60.

PE'.'JSION SCHEME REGULATIONS FOR MEMBERS OF THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE

Retirement pension I. A member of the International Court of Justice who has ceased to hold office and who has reached the age of sixtyfive shall be entitled during the remainder of his life, subject to paragraph 4 below, to a retirement pension, payable monthly, provided that he has :

Completed at least five years of service ;

Not been required to relinquish his appointment under Article 18 of the Statute of the Court for reasons other than the state of his health.

The amount of the retirement pension shall be determined as follows:

If the member has served a full term of nine years, the amount of the pension shall be 10,000 dollars a year;

( b) If he has served for more than nine years, the amount of the pension shall be increased by 33.33 dollars a. year for each month of service in excess of nine years, provided that the maximum retirement pension shall not exceed two-thirds of his annual salary;

( c) If he has served for less than a full term of nine years, the amount of the retirement pension shall be that proportion of 10,000 dollars which the number of months of his actual service bears to 108.

A member who ceases to hold office before the age of sixty-five and who would be entitled to a retirement pension when he reached that age may elect to receive a pension from any date after the date on which he ceases to hold office. Should he so elect, the amount of such pension shall be that amount which has the same actuarial value as the retirement pension which would have been paid to him at the age of sixtyfive.

30 Ibid., agenda item 54, document A/4424.

31 Ibid., documents A/4544 and A/4579.

No retirement pension shall be payable to a former member who has been re-elected to office until he again ceases to hold office. At that time, the amount of his pension shall be calculated in accordance with paragraph 2 above on the basis of his total period of service and shall be subject to a reduction equal in actuarial value to the amount of any retirement pension paid to him before he reached the age of sixty-five.

Disability pension

A member found by the Court to be unable to perform his duties because of permanent ill-health or disability shall be entitled upon leaving office to a disability pension payable monthly.

The amount of the disab11ity pension shall be determined as in article I, paragraph 2, provided that it shall not be less than 5,000 dollars a year.

Widow's pension

Upon the death of a married member, his widow shall be entitled to a widow's pension amounting to one-third of the pension which he would have received had he become entitled to a disability pension at the time of his death, provided that the widow's pension shall not be less than one-sixth of the annual salary.

Upon the death of a married former member who was in receipt of a disability pension, his widow, provided she was his wife at the date his service ended, shall be entitled to a widow's pension amounting to one-third of the pension which her husband was receiving, provided that the widow's pension shall not be less than one-sixth of the annual salary.

Upon the death of a married former member who was entitled to a retirement pension, his widow, provided she was his wife at the date his service ended, shall be entitled to a widow's pension calculated as follows:

If the former member had not begun, at the date of his death, to receive his retirement pension, the widow's pension · shall amount to one~third of the pension which would have been payable to him under article I. paragraph 3, had he commenced to receive such pension on the date of his death, provided that the widow's pension shall not be less than onetwelfth of the annual salary ;

If the former member had begun to receive his retirement pension before he reached the age of sixty-five, under article I, paragraph 3, the widow's pension shall amount to one-third of the amount of such pension, but shall not be less than one-twelfth of the annual salary ;

If the former member had reached the age of sixty-five when he began to receive his retirement pension, the widow's pension shall amount to one-third of his retirement pension, but shall not be less than one-sixth of the annual salary.

A widow's pension shall cease on her remarriage.

Child's benefit

Each child or legally adopted child of a member or former. member who dies shall be entitled, while unmarried and under the age of twenty-one, to a benefit calculated as follows:

Where there is a widow entitled to a pension under article III, the annual amount of the child's benefit shall be:

Ten per cent of the retirement pension which the former member was receiving ; or

If the former member had not begun, at the date of his death, to receive his retirement pension, 10 per cent of the pension which would have been payable to him under article I, paragraph 3, had he commenced to receive such pension on the date of his death; or

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In the case of the death of a member in office, 10 per cent of the pension which he would have received had he qualified for a disahility pension at the dat•: of his death; provided, in all cases, that the amount of the child's ben~fit shall not exceed 60) dollars a year ;

( b) Where there is no widow entitled to a pension under article lII, or where the widow dies, the total am()unt of the children's benefits payable under sub-paragraph (a) above shall be increased by the following amount :

( i) If there is only one eligible child, by one-half of the amount of the pension which was being paid or would have been paid to the widow ;

If there are two or more eligible childrrn, by the amount of the pension which wa, being paid or would h,n·e been paid to the widow ;

The total children's benefits payable under sub-paragraph

( b) above shall be divided equally among all the eligible children to determine the amount of any one child's benefit; as and when a child ceases to be eligible, the total benefit payable to the remainder shall be recalculated in accordance with sub-paragraph ( b).

The total amount of children's benefit, when added to the amount of any widow's benefit in payment, shall nut exceed the pension which the former member or memhcr received or woul

Special prm-isio11s

Notwithstanding the pro\·isions of article I, paragraph I (a), a member elected to fill a casual vacancy who holds office for the remainder of his predecessor's term, where such

remaining term is less than five but not less than three years, shall on ~etirement, after completion of that term and provided that he is not subsequently re-elected, be entitled during the remainder of his life, and subject to article I, paragraph 4, to a retirement pension,

payable monthly,

calculated accordance with article I, paragraph 2 ( c).

Upon the death of a married former member who was entitled to a retirement pension under paragraph I above, his widow and children shall be entitled to the appropriate benefit provided under article III, paragraph 3, and article IV, subject to the conditions described therein but without the application of the related minima provisions.

Definitions I. "Member" means either the President, the Vice-President or a member of the Court in office.

"Annual salary" means the annual salary, exclusive of anv allowances, fixed by the General Assembly and received by tl;c member at the time he ceased to hold office.

Misce/laneo1ts provisions I. Pensions provided for by the present Regulations shall be calculated in terms of the currency in which the salary of the member concerned has been fixed by the General Assembly.

All pensions provided for by these Regulations shall he regarded as expenses of the Court, within the meaning of Artie-le 33 of the Statute of the Court.

The President of the Court and the Secretarv-General shall establish a table of actuarial reduction factor:, on the advice of a qualified actuary or actuaries.

Application and effectiz•e dat,,

The present Regulations shall be applicable as from January 1961 to all who are members on or after that date, except that members elected at the fifteenth session of the General Assembly or earlier may, within a period of three months from the date of adoption of the present Regulations, elect to have their entitlements determined in accordance with

the Regulations in force immediately prior to the adoption of

Authorizes the Secretary-General to expend up the present Regulations.32 to a maximum of $19 million for the continuing opera-

Fonner members who left office prior to 1 January 1961,

tion of the United Nations Emergency Force during or their eligible beneficiaries who are in receipt of a benefit 1961; on 1 January 1961, may elect within three months of the

Decides to assess the amount of $19 million against adoption of the present Regulations to have their entitlements all States Members of the United Nations on the basis governed by these Regulations ; any former member or beneof the regular scale of assessments, subject to the provificiary who does so elect shall have such benefit payments as sions of paragraphs 3 and 4 below ; are due to him on or after 1 January 1961 calculated in

Decides further that the voluntary contributions accordance with the present Regulations.

pledged pr.ior ·to 31 December 1960, including those already announced and referred to in the fourth pre-

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