Local Government (Superannuation) Act, 1956 (Addition To Service) Regulations, 1956.

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Citation: IR SI 79/1956
• Year: 1956

S.I. No. 79 of 1956.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT (SUPERANNUATION) ACT, 1956 (ADDITION TO SERVICE) REGULATIONS, 1956.

The Minister for Local Government in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 13 of the Local Government (Superannuation) Act, 1956 , and of every other power in this behalf enabling him hereby makes the following Regulations :— 1. These Regulations may be cited as the Local Government (Superannuation) Act, 1956 (Addition to Service) Regulations, 1956. 2. These Regulations shall come into operation on the 1st day of April, 1956. 3. In these Regulations, " the Act " means the Local Government (Superannuation) Act, 1956 (No. 10 of 1956) and " the Act of 1956 " means the Local Authorities (Officers and Employees) Act, 1926 (No. 39 of 1926). 4. (1) A local authority may, pursuant to section 13 of the act, and in accordance with these Regulations, add a period to the pensionable local service of an officer in respect of any one or more, as may be appropriate, of the circumstances referred to, in paragraphs (a) to (g) of subsection (2) of the said section 13.

(2) The period added shall not exceed ten years or, where a period has been added under subsection (1) of section 13 of the act, shall not exceed the difference between that period and ten years.

(3) A local authority may, if they so think fit, add less than the maximum period permitted in accordance with these Regulations. 5. Notwithstanding anything contained in any other article of these Regulations, the following provisions shall apply to the addition pursuant to section 13 of the Act of a period to the pensionable local service of an officer :—

(a) subject to paragraph (b) of this article, a period shall not be added save for the purpose of the calculation of a lump sum under section 16 and an allowance under section 17 of the act ;

(b) a period added in accordance with paragraph (d) of subsection (2) of section 13 of the act which is regarded in pursuance of subsection (4) of the said section as pensionable local service shall not have the effect, in the case of a gratuity, of making the pensionable local service of an officer greater than five years ;

(c) a period shall not be added where the service of an officer amounts to forty years or more ;

(d) a period shall not be added so as to make the service of an officer greater than forty years ;

(e) where the pensionable remuneration of an officer (not being a rate collector) consists of salary and fees, and the amount of the fees during the last three years of his service was, in the opinion of the local authority, considerably greater than in the preceding period of three years, the period added to the pensionable local...