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saorstAt eireann.

BILLE AN GHARDA SIOCHANA (PINSIN), 1933.

GARDA SIOCHANA (PENSIONS) BILL, 1933.

Mar do leasuiodh i yCoiste.

As amended in Committee.

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS.

Section.

1.

Grant of pensions under this Act.

2.

General provisions in respect of pensions under this Act 3.

Short title.

[No.

38a of ’33.]

saorstAt eireann.

BILLE AN GHARDA SIOCHANA (PINSIN), 1933.

GARDA SIOCHANA (PENSIONS) BILL, 1933.


BILL entitled AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE GRANTING OF PENSIONS TO COMMISSIONERS OF THE GARDA SIOCHANA WHO HAVE BEEN OR SHALL BE REMOVED FROM OFFICE OTHERWISE THAN FOR INCAPACITY OR MISCONDUCT.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS OF SAORSTAT EIREANN AS FOLLOWS:— C ' Grant of l._(i) Where a Commissioner" of the Garda Siocfiana has pendons iinder been removed (whether before or after the passing of this Act) from the Garda Siochana and, within whichever of the following periods later expires, that is to say, one month after the passing of this Act or six months after such removal,the President certifies in writing under his hand that such Commissioner was so removed for a reason other than incapacity or misconduct, the Minister for Finance may, on the recommendation of the Minister for Justice, grant and pay to such Commissioner a pension for his life of an amount calculated in accordance with this section and com­ mencing on the cessation of the pay of such Commissioner.
(2) Every pension granted under this Act shall be calculated at the rate of one-sixtieth of the annual pay of w'hich the person to whom such pension is granted was in receipt as Commissioner of the Garda Siochana immediately before his removal therefrom for every completed year of his pensionable service (calculated in accordance with this section), together with, where such pension­ able service amounts to or exceeds twenty-one completed years, an additional one-sixtieth of such annual pay for the twenty-first and every subsequent completed year of such pensionable scr\ ice, but so that no such pension shall exceed two-thirds of such annual pay.
(3) The pensionable service of any person for the purposes of this Act shall be taken to be the number of complbtcd years actually served by him in the Garda Siochana together with 35 (a) where the said number of completed years is less than ten, the addition of either (as the Minister for Finance shall direct) such number of years as will bring the said number of completed years up to ten or a number of years equal to the said number of completed years, or (b) where the said number of completed years amounts to or exceeds ten, the addition of such number of years, not exceeding twelve, as the Minister for I inance shall direct.
(4) For the purposes of this section, service in the police force which existed in Saorstat Eireann under the name of “ The Civic Guard ” before the passing of the Garda Siochana (Temporary Provisions) Act, 1923 (No.

37 of 1923), and service in the police force maintained in Saorstat Eireann under the name of “ The Garda Siochana ” before the commencement of the Police Forces 2 40 45 50 General provisions in respect of pensions under this Act.

Amalgamation Act, 1925 (No.


7 of 1925), and service in the Dublin Metropolitan Police before the commencement of the last- mentioned Act shall be reckoned as service in the Garda Siochana.

2.

—(1) Every pension granted under this Act shall be paid 5 out of moneys provided by the (^ireachtas.

(2) The Executive (’ouncil may at any time by order revoke oi suspend lor such time as they think proper any pension granted under this Act.
(3) The provisions in relation to the following matters cou­ ld tained in the orders for the time being in force regulating the grant and payment of pensions to members of the Garda Siochana, that is to say:— 15 (а) restrictions on assignment of such pensions, and (б) forfeiture of such pensions, and (c) suspension of such pensions, and (d) mode of payment of such pensions, and (e) penalties for fraud in relation to the grant of such pensions, shall apply to every pension granted under this Act in like manner 20 as they apply to pensions granted under the said orders.
3.

—This Act may be cited as the Garda Siochana (Pensions) Act, 1933.

Short title.

3 Saorstat Eireann Saorstdt Eireann BILLE AN GHARDA SIOCHANA (PINSIN) 1933.

GARDA SIOCHANA (PENSIONS) BILL, 1933.

BILLE BILL (mar do leasutodh i gCoiste) (as amended in Committee) dd ngairmtear entitled Aeht chun socruithe do dhcanamh ehun pinsean do dheonadh do Choimisineiri don Gharda Siochana do cuireadh no cuirfear as oifig ar chuis seachas mi-chumas no mi-iompar.
An Act to provide for the granting of pensions to Commissioners of the G&rda Siochdna who have been or shall be removed from office otherwise than for incapacity or mis­ conduct.

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Introduced by the Minister for Justice Do horduiodh, ag Dail Eireann, do chid- bhualadh, 3adh Luiuisa, 1933.

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