(1)  This section applies only to the person who was the Director on 1 July 1999.

(1A)  Subject to this section, the Judges' Contributory Pensions Act 1968 applies to the Director and, if he predeceases his spouse, his widow as if he were, or had been, a judge to whom that Act applies and as if his service as Director were service as such a judge.

(2)  In its application to the Director and to his widow–

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(b) subsection (2) of section 5 of the Judges' Contributory Pensions Act 1968 has effect as if the reference therein to the appropriate judicial salary were a reference to the salary payable to the Director at the time of his or her retirement or death; and

(c) section 7 of that Act has effect as if subsection (3) were omitted and the following subsection were substituted:

(3)  In this section, a reference to the appropriate judicial salary, in relation to a pension payable in respect of contributions paid by a person who, immediately before that person became entitled to a pension under this Act or at that person's death, was the Director of Public Prosecutions, is a reference to the salary for the time being required by law to be paid to the Director of Public Prosecutions.

(3)  The application of sections 10A, 10B, 10C and 10D of the Judges' Contributory Pensions Act 1968 extends to the commutation of a pension payable under this Act by the Director or, if he predeceases his spouse, his widow, as if references in those sections to a person to whom that Act applies were read as references to the Director.

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