Local Government (Superannuation Revision) (Consolidation) Scheme, 1986.
Statutory Instruments
Source: Statutory Instruments

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paragraphs: This Scheme may be cited as the Local Government (Superannuation Revision) (Consolidation) Scheme, 1986.
2 Commencement.
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paragraphs: This Scheme shall be deemed to have come into force on the 27th day of May, 1977.
3 Interpretation.
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paragraphs: (1) In this scheme:—
"the Act of 1925" means the Local Government Act, 1925 (No. 5 of 1925);
"the Act of 1945" means the Mental Treatment Act, 1945 (No. 19 of 1945);
"the Act of 1948" means the Local Government (Superannuation) Act, 1948 (No. 4 of 1948);
"the Act of 1956" means the Local Government (Superannuation) Act, 1956 (No. 10 of 1956);
"the appropriate Minister" means—
(a) in case the local authority in question are a vocational education committee, the Minister for Education, and
(b) in any other case, the Minister;
"approved job-sharing scheme" means a scheme or arrangements for the sharing of a wholetime office or employment by two officers or two employees—
(i) where, in relation to officers or employees of a vocational education committee or school attendance committee, a job-sharing scheme has been approved by the Minister for Education,
(ii) where, in relation to officers or employees of a health board or other health body, a job-sharing scheme has been approved by the Minister for Health, and
(iii) in any other case, where a job-sharing scheme has been approved by the Minister for the Environment;
"civil service", when used without qualification, includes, in addition to the civil service of the Government, the civil services mentioned in paragraphs (a), (b), (e) and (f) of subsection (1) of section 2 of the Superannuation Act, 1936 (No. 39 of 1936);
"eligible employee" means—
(a) an employee of a local authority, not being a pensionable servant and not being a registered employee, who,—
(i) on the expiration of any local financial year, with effect from and including the local financial year ending on the 31st day of December, 1978, or
(ii) during any local financial year, with effect from and including the local financial year ending on the 31st day of December, 1986,
has had in that local financial year one hundred and thirty or more service days in relation to the local authority or to that local authority and any other local authority, and who did not give notice in writing under section 30 (2) or section 31 (1) (b) of the Act of 1956 in the month of January, 1978, that his name was not to be entered in or was to be removed from the register of pensionable servants maintained by a local authority under section 30 of the Act of 1956, or
(b) a person who, on or after the 1st day of June, 1978, becomes an employee of a local authority who, immediately before becoming such employee, was a pensionable officer or a registered officer of the same or another local authority, a registered employee of such local authority or the holder of a position not under a local authority service in which is capable of being reckoned under this Scheme;
"eligible officer" means—
(a) a permanent officer whose appointment as such was made on or after the 1st day of June, 1978 and who, either—
(i) devotes the whole of his time to the service of one or more than one local authority,
(ii) is required to be a registered medical practitioner, or
(iii) is sharing a wholetime office with one other officer under an approved job-sharing scheme, or
(b) a person referred to in article 28 (1) or (2);
"employee" means an employee who is appointed or employed, otherwise than as an independent contractor or as an officer, by a local authority;
"emolument" means, subject to articles 26 and 48, any apartments, rations, or other perquisites in kind (or, as the case may require, a monetary payment given in lieu of such apartments, rations, or other perquisites) appertaining to an office or employment and all fees, poundage and commission of an officer or employee as such for his own use together with any allowances in the nature of pay which are additional to salary or wages, other than payments, expenses or allowances in kind of the kind specified in article 26 (1) or 48 (1);
"fire brigade employee" means an employee of a fire authority under the Fire Services Act, 1981 (No. 30 of 1981), who is wholetime as such and whose duties include attendance at fires;
"fire brigade officer" means an officer of a fire authority under the Fire Services Act, 1981 (No. 30 of 1981), who is wholetime as such and whose duties include attendance at fires:
"fully insured" means insured for all benefits under the Social Welfare (Consolidation) Act, 1981 (No. 1 of 1981);
"harbour authority" means a harbour authority within the meaning of the Harbours Act, 1946 (No. 9 of 1946);
"health body" means a body within the meaning of section 2 (9) of the Local Government (Superannuation) Act, 1980 (No. 8 of 1980) other than a local authority, within the meaning of section 1 of that Act, or a health board;
"local authority" shall have the meaning assigned to it in section 1 of the Local Government (Superannuation) Act, 1980 (No. 8 of 1980) and in addition shall include a body within the meaning of section 2 (9) of that Act;
"mental hospital employee" means a servant of a health board whose duties relate wholly to the functions of the board under the Mental Treatment Acts, 1945 to 1966 or the Health (Mental Services) Act, 1981 (No. 17 of 1981);
"mental hospital officer" means an officer of a health board whose duties relate wholly to the functions of the board under the Mental Treatment Acts, 1945 to 1966 or the Health (Mental Services) Act, 1981 (No. 17 of 1981);
"minimum retiring age" means, in the case of an officer to whom the provisions of sub-article (2) or (3) (a) of article 9 apply, or in the case of an employee to whom the provisions of sub-article (2) or (3) (a) of article 33 apply, 55 years and, in any other case, 60 years;
"the Minister" means the Minister for the Environment;
"officer" does not include a person holding any of the offices mentioned in section 17 of the Local Government Act, 1941 (No. 23 of 1941);
"pensionable local service", in the case of an officer, has the meaning assigned to it in article 9 and, in the case of an employee, has the meaning assigned to it article 33;
"pensionable officer" means a pensionable officer for the purposes of the Act of 1956;
"pensionable servant" means a pensionable servant for the purposes of the Act of 1956;