Section 125. Future official referees

Except as otherwise provided in this
  article,  no  retired  judge or justice of any court of this state shall
  hereafter be designated or act as official referee under the  provisions
  of this article and the right heretofore existing of judges and justices
  to   act   as  official  referee  pursuant  to  appointment  or  without
  appointment, except as otherwise provided in  this  article,  is  hereby
  abolished.  The  term  of  office  of  each official referee qualifying,
  pursuant to the provisions of this article, after the date when this act
  becomes effective shall, notwithstanding any  other  provision  in  this
  article, expire automatically on the thirty-first day of December in the
  year in which he will have attained the age of seventy-six years.