LegalizeS.I. No. 378/2002 - Local Authority Members (Gratuity) (Amendment) Regulations, 2002
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1 amending act · 2024-06-07, S.I. No. 276/2024 - Local Authority Members (Gratuity) Regulations 2024
The Minister for the Environment and Local Government, in exercise of the power conferred on him by Sections 4 and 142 of the Local Government Act, 2001 (No. 37 of 2001), with the consent of the Minister for Finance, hereby makes the following regulations:
Short Title.
1.
These Regulations may be cited as the Local Authority Members (Gratuity) (Amendment) Regulations, 2002.
Interpretation.
2.
In these Regulations -
“the Principal Regulations” means the Local Authority Members (Gratuity) Regulations, 2002 ( S.I. No. 281 of 2002 ).
Amendment of Article 2 of the Principal Regulations.
3.
Article 2 of the Principal Regulations is hereby amended by the substitution of the following definitions for the definitions of “appropriate local authority” and “qualifying service” contained therein:
‘ “appropriate local authority” means -
- (a) where a person is a member of a local authority other than a town council mentioned in Part 2 of Schedule 6 to the Act, such local authority,
- (b) where a person is a member of a town council mentioned in Part 2 of Schedule 6 to the Act, the county council in whose county the town is situated, and
- (c) where a person is a member of both a county council and a town council, such county council; ’.
‘ “qualifying service” means service given as a member of the local authority, or any other local authority, on or after the 4^th day of May, 2000, subject to the proviso that where a period of qualifying service of a person as a member of a local authority is concurrent with a period of qualifying service by him or her as a member of another local authority, only one such period shall be reckoned, which shall be the period which produces the more favourable result for him or her; ’.
Insertion of new Article in the Principal Regulations.
4.
The Principal Regulations are hereby amended by the insertion of the following article after article 10 thereof:
“11. Without prejudice to any other provision of these Regulations -
(a) an addition to qualifying service under article 3,
(b) the grant of a gratuity under article 4 or 7,
(c) the grant of a preserved gratuity under article 6,
shall in no case be made where a person is a member of any local authority.”.
| GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for the Environment and Local Government this 16^th day of July, 2002. | |
| Martin Cullen | |
| __________ Minister for the Environment and Local Government. |
The Minister for Finance hereby consents to the Local Authority Members (Gratuity (Amendment) Regulations, 2002.
| GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Finance this 23^rd day of July, 2002. | |
| Charlie McCreevy | |
| __________ Minister for Finance. |
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not a part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation).
These Regulations amend the Local Authority Members (Gratuity) Regulations, 2002.
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