SUPERANNUATION AND PENSIONS ACT, 1963

Type Act

Publication 1963-07-30

Last updated 2020-05-01

State Partially repealed superseded text

Text As published

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This is the act as published. Later amendments are not folded into the text below: each one is a separate act in this repository and an entry in this law's history.

58 amending acts · 2020-05-01, S.I. No. 150/2020 - Superannuation (Designation of Approved Organisations) Regulations, 2020

Reform history JSON API

30.—(1) Section 6A of the Oireachtas (Allowances to Members) Act, 1938, being the section inserted by section 5 of the Oireachtas (Allowances to Members) and Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices (Amendment) Act, 1960, is hereby amended, with effect as from the passing of the last-mentioned Act, by the addition of the following subsections:

“(4) A scheme to which this section applies may be amended by resolution passed by each House of the Oireachtas.

(5) A scheme to which this section applies may contain provisions for enabling the scheme to be wound up by resolution passed by each House of the Oireachtas and for empowering the trustees of the scheme, where the scheme is wound up, to realise and dispose of assets.”

(2) The Oireachtas (Allowances to Members) Acts, 1938 to 1962, and this section may be cited together as the Oireachtas (Allowances to Members) Acts, 1938 to 1963.

31 Supplements to certain allowances under Local Government (Superannuation) Act, 1956.

31.—(1) This section applies to a person who has retired, consequent upon the Health (Age Limit for Office of District Medical Officer) Declaration, 1960, from the office of district medical officer if the retirement occurred on the 1st day of January, 1961, or after that day and before the 1st day of January, 1968.

(2) The Minister for Health may, with the approval of the Minister, pay out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas a supplement to any allowance under the Local Government (Superannuation) Act, 1956, which is payable to a person to whom this section applies in respect of his former office as district medical officer.

(3) The rate of a supplement under this section shall be calculated as a percentage of the relevant allowance, and the percentage shall be—

(a) where the year of retirement is 1961—50 per cent.,

(b) where that year is 1962—45 per cent.,

(d) where that year is 1964—35 per cent.,

(e) where that year is 1965—30 per cent.,

(f) where that year is 1966—20 per cent.,

(g) where that year is 1967—10 per cent.

(4) A supplement under this section shall be payable until the death of the payee or the expiration of six years from the retirement (whichever first occurs).

(5) Where a person to whom a supplement under this section is payable receives any payment by way of remuneration out of public moneys, no more of the supplement shall be paid to him in any year than so much as, with that payment and the relevant allowance, equals the remuneration (inclusive of the money value of emoluments, if any) on which that allowance was computed.

32 Payment in respect of vacation of residence in certain cases.

32.—(1) This section applies to a person who, on retiring consequent upon the Health (Age Limit for Office of District Medical Officer) Declaration, 1960, has vacated a residence provided for him as the holder of that office if the vacation of the residence occurred on the 1st day of January, 1961, or after that date and before the 1st day of July, 1965.

(2) The Minister for Health may, with the approval of the Minister, pay out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas to a person to whom this section applies—

(a) where the date of vacation of the residence and the date of retirement were the same date during the six months ending on the 30th day of June, 1961, or, not being the same date, the later of them fell within those six months—five hundred pounds,

(b) where those dates were the same date during the year ending on the 30th day of June, 1962, or, not being the same date, the later of them fell within that year—four hundred pounds,

(c) where those dates were the same date during the year ending on the 30th day of June, 1963, or, not being the same date, the later of them fell within that year—three hundred pounds,

(d) where those dates were the same date during the year ending on the 30th day of June, 1964, or, not being the same date, the later of them fell within that year—two hundred pounds,

(e) where those dates were the same date during the year ending on the 30th day of June, 1965, or, not being the same date, the later of them fell within that year—one hundred pounds.

33 Reckoning by justice of District Court of service as county registrar.

33.—Paragraph 7 of the Second Schedule to the Courts (Supplemental Provisions) Act, 1961, is hereby amended by the insertion in the definition of “service” of the following subparagraph after subparagraph (b):

“(bb) service as a county registrar (being service which was continuous with subsequent service as a justice or as a temporary district justice and being service in respect of which the person concerned was remunerated, exclusive of any period during which he was absent on account of illness and was remunerated at a rate determined by reference to the rate which would be appropriate if he were on pension),”

34 Amendment of Transport Act, 1959.

34.—(1) In this section—

“the Scheme” means the Córas Iompair Éireann (Members) Superannuation Scheme, 1960;

“approved body” means a body which is approved of for the purposes of this section by the Minister and the Minister for Transport and Power.

(2) Notwithstanding section 2 of the Transport Act, 1959, where a person to whom the Scheme applies is appointed as a part-time member of the board of an approved body, he shall continue to be eligible for the benefits of the Scheme.

(3) Subsection (2) of this section shall apply in relation to a person who, at any time after the 30th day of March, 1962, and before the passing of this Act (being a time when the Scheme applied to him), was appointed as a part-time member of the board of an approved body, including any such person who has died or retired before the passing of this Act.

35 Determination of disputed matters by the Minister.

35.—Every doubt, question or dispute arising under this Act shall be decided by the Minister, whose decision thereon shall be final and conclusive.

36 Short title and collective citation.

36.—(1) This Act may be cited as the Superannuation and Pensions Act, 1963.

(2) The Superannuation Acts, 1834 to 1956, and this Act may be cited together as the Superannuation Acts, 1834 to 1963.

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