Police Forces Amalgamation Act, 1925

Pay and allowances of members of the amalgamated force.

12.—(1) The Minister may with the sanction of the Minister for Finance from time to time by order regulate and appoint the rates of pay and allowances (including conditions applicable thereto) to be paid to the several ranks and to the several grades of each rank of the officers and men of the amalgamated force.

(2) Before making an order under this section the Minister shall cause the draft of the order to be submitted to the several representative bodies representing the several ranks and grades of the amalgamated force who would be affected by the order when made and shall consider any representations made to him in respect of the draft order by any such representative body.

(3) Until varied by an order under this section and subject to any such variation—

(a) the pay of the Commissioner, Deputy Commissioners, Assistant Commissioners, and Surgeon respectively of the amalgamated force shall be in accordance with the rates and conditions prescribed by the Gárda Síochána Pay Order, 1924, in respect of the officers of corresponding rank in the Gárda Síochána, save that the pay of the person who at the commencement of this Act holds the office of Commissioner of the Dublin Metropolitan Police shall as long as he holds the office of Deputy Commissioner of the amalgamated force be in accordance with the rate and conditions prescribed by the Dublin Metropolitan Police Pay Order, 1924, in respect of the Commissioner of the Dublin Metropolitan Police; and

(b) the pay of each member of the amalgamated force below the rank of surgeon who was immediately before the commencement of this Act a member of the Dublin Metropolitan Police shall be in accordance with the rate and conditions prescribed by the Dublin Metropolitan Police Pay Order, 1924, in respect of the rank of the Dublin Metropolitan Police corresponding to the rank for the time being held by him in the amalgamated force; and

(c) the pay of each member of the amalgamated force not hereinbefore provided for shall be in accordance with the rate and conditions prescribed by the Gárda Síochána Pay Order, 1924, in respect of the rank in the Gárda Síochána corresponding to the rank for the time being held by him in the amalgamated force.

(4) Until varied by an order made under this section and subject to any such variation—

(a) the allowances payable to each member of the amalgamated force stationed in the Dublin Metropolitan Area shall be in accordance with the rates and conditions prescribed by the Dublin Metropolitan Police Allowances Order, 1920, in respect of the rank in the Dublin Metropolitan Police corresponding to the rank for the time being held by him in the amalgamated force; and

(b) the allowances payable to each member of the amalgamated force stationed outside the Dublin Metropolitan Area shall be in accordance with the rates and conditions prescribed by the Gárda Síochána Allowances Order, 1924, in respect of the rank in the Gárda Síochána corresponding to the rank for the time being held by him in the amalgamated force.

For the purpose of this sub-section members of the amalgamated force stationed at the Headquarters of the force in Dublin or at the Depot in Phœnix Park, Dublin, who were members of the Dublin Metropolitan Police immediately before the commencement of this Act shall be deemed to be stationed within the Dublin Metropolitan Area, and all other members of the amalgamated force stationed at the Headquarters aforesaid or at the Depot aforesaid shall be deemed to be stationed outside the Dublin Metropolitan Area.

(5) Every order made under this section shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is made, and if a resolution annulling such order is passed by either House of the Oireachtas within twenty-one days after the first day on which such House shall sit after the order is laid before it the order shall be annulled accordingly but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under the order.