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54023001312849 BILLE AOIS-LIUNTAS AGUS PINSEAN, 1929.

SUPERANNUATION AND PENSIONS BILL, 1929.

Mar do tuyadh isieach.

J.6 introduced.

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS, Section.

1.

Definitions.

2.

Extension of section 5 of Principal Act.

3.

Pensions to widows of pensioners under section 5 of the Principal Act.

4.

Short title.
4.

Short title.

5 10 BILL entitled 15 AN ACT TO EXTEND TIIE CLASS OF PERSONS TO WHOM PENSIONS, ALLOWANCES AND GRATUITIES MAY BE GRANTED UNDER SECTION 5 OF THE SUPERANNUA­ TION AND PENSIONS ACT, 1923.

AND TO AUTHORISE THE PAYMENT OF PENSIONS, ALLOWANCES AND 20 GRATUITIES TO THE WIDOWS OF PERSONS WHO AT TIIEIR DEATHS WERE IN RECEIPT OF PENSIONS UNDER THE SAID SECTION 5.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS OF SAORSTAT EIREANN AS FOLLOWS 25 1.—In this Act— the expression “ the Principal Act ” means the Superannuation and Pensions Act, 1923, (No.

34 of 1923) and the expression “ the Minister ” means the Minister for Finance.
—(1) The power conferred by section 5 of the Principal 30 Act on the Minister to authorise the grant of pensions, allow­ ances, or gratuities to certain persons who were formerly mem­ bers of the Royal Irish Constabulary is hereby extended so as to confer on the Minister power to authorise by order the grant of pensions or allowances commencing from the passing of this Act 35 or of gratuities to any person who retired from the Royal Irish Constabulary on or after the 1st day of April, 1916, and before the Glh day of December, 1921 and who, though his retirement is not certified in accordance with that section, satisfies the Min­ ister and the Minister for Justice that on such retirement he was 40 granted under the enactments applicable to him a gratuity appropriate to his years of service in that force and that the Committee of Enquiry into Resignations and Dismissals from the Royal Irish Constabulary which reported to the Minister for Home Affairs on the 26th day of July, 1923 was of opinion that his retirement from the said force was caused by his national sympathies.
Definitions.

Extension of section 5 of Principal Act.
:> (2) Until an order is made by the Minister under the said sec­ tion 5 of the Principal Act as amended by this section, the Royal Irish Constabulary (Resigned and Dismissed) Pensions Order, 1924, made by the Minister under the said section 5, shall, with the necessary modifications, extend and apply to every person to whom the Minister is authorised by the said section 5 as amended by this section to grant a pension, allowance or gratuity, and for that purpose the said Order shall be.
deemed to have been made under the said section 5 as amended by this section and the said Order shall as from the passing of this Act be in operation and have effect accordingly.

pensions, allowances, or gratuities to widows to whom this sec- widows* of'° en 3.—^ The Minister niay by order authorise the grant of sioners und^r* section 5 of the tion applies and may by any such order regulate and appoint ra^cs an(j SCales of such pensions, allowances, and gratuities, Principal Act.
and the conditions under which the same are to be payable, and may by any such order prescribe the penalties for any fraudulent conduct in relation to an application for any such pension, allowance, or gratuity.
5 10 15 (2) No order made under this section shall come into opera­ tion unless and until it has been laid before each House of the Oireachtas, and approved by resolution of Bail Eireann, and when considering any such resolution Dail Eireann shall duly consider any recommendation which shall have been previously made by Seanad Eireann in respect of such Order.
20 25 (3) No person shall be entitled to receive any pension, allow­ ance or gratuity under this section unless money for payment thereof shall have been voted by the Oireachtas.
(4) This section applies to a widow— («) whose deceased husband was at the date of his death in receipt of a pension granted by virtue of section 5 of the Principal Act or of that section as amended by this Act, and 30 (b) whose marriage to such deceased husband took place while he was serving in the Royal Irish Constabulary, and 35 (c) who is not eligible for a pension, gratuity or other allowance under the Superannuation Acts 1834 to 1923 or the Army Pensions Acts 1923 and 1927 or in respect of her deceased husband’s service in the Garda Siochana.
40 - Short Title.

4.—This may be cjte(j as Superannuation and Pensions Act, 1929 and the Principal Act and this Act may be cited together as the Superannuation and Pensions Acts, 1923 and 1929.

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SUPERANNUATION AND PENSIONS BILL, 1929.

BILLE (mar do tugadh isteach) da ngairmtear BILL (as introduced) entitled Acht chun an aicme daoine do mheadu da bhfeadfar pinsin, liiintaisi agus aisci do .
dheona fe Alt 5 den Acht Aoise-Iiuntas agus Pinsean, 1923. agus chun a udaru go n-locfar pinsin, liuntaisi agus aisci le baintreacha daoine a bhi le linn eaga dhoibh ag fail pinsean fen Alt sau 5.
An Act to extend the class of persons to whom pensions, allowances and gratuities may be granted under Section 5 of the Superan­ nuation and Pensions Act, 1923, and to authorise the payment of pensions, allow­ ances and gratuities to the widows of persons who at their deaths were in receipt of pensions under the said Section 5.

An tAire Airgid do thug isteach.

Introduced by the Minister for Finance.

Do horduiodh, ag Dail Eireann, do chlo-bhuala, 21adh Feabhra, 1929.
Ordered, by Bail Eireann, to be printed,.

21th February, 1929.

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