Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1898

Employment and payment of officers by Local Government Board.

32 & 33 Vict. c. 79.

122.[Sub-s. (1) rep. 8 Edw. 7. c. 49 (S.L.R.).]

(2) The officers employed in auditing county treasurers’ accounts, who were formerly officers in the office of the Receiver Master and were subsequently transferred to the Local Government Board, shall become officers under that Board at the same remuneration as they have hitherto received; and they shall be qualified to receive a grant of such superannuation allowance as is authorised by the Local Officers (Ireland) Superannuation Act, 1869; and their service as such officers after the transfer shall, as well as their past service, be reckoned as service for the purpose of such superannuation allowance, and any such allowance shall be paid out of the fee fund mentioned in the said Act; and any surplus of that fee fund above what is required to meet such superannuation and other expenses payable thereout, shall be paid to the Local Taxation (Ireland) Account, and be applied as if it had been paid under the said Act of 1896.[2]

[S. 123 rep. 8 Edw. 7. c. 49 (S.L.R.).]

Commencement and Appointed Day.

[2 8 Edw. 7. c. 38, s. 8 provides prospectively for the application of this surplus to the purposes of the National University of Ireland, at Dublin (or any of its constituent colleges), and the Queen’s University of Belfast which were founded by Charters of December 2, 1908. See Stat. Rules and Orders, 1909, No. 217.]