University Education (Agriculture and Dairy Science) Act, 1926

Existing officers of College of Science and Albert Agricultural College.

16.—(1) In this section the expression “existing officer” means and includes all professors, lecturers, porters, messengers, and other officers and servants who immediately before the appointed day are employed in the College of Science or the Albert Agricultural College.

(2) On the appointed day every existing officer shall cease to hold office and their respective offices shall be abolished.

(3) Every existing officer shall be offered by University College, Dublin, employment in a situation in that College equivalent in respect of duties, salary, tenure of office, and conditions of service to the office held by him as an existing officer immediately before the appointed day, but every such offer of employment shall be made subject to the condition that on accepting such employment the existing officer shall waive all rights (if any) to compensation under Article 10 of the Treaty of 1921.

(4) Every existing officer who holds, immediately before the appointed day, an office to which the Superannuation Acts, 1834 to 1923, apply and accepts employment in a situation in University College, Dublin offered to him pursuant to this section, shall have in such situation the same rights in respect of pension, superannuation allowance, and gratuity (including the right of his legal personal representative to a gratuity on his death) as he had under the said Acts in the office held by him immediately before the appointed day, save that any pension, superannuation allowance, or gratuity which may become payable to him or to his legal personal representative shall be payable by University College, Dublin.

(5) Every question or dispute which shall arise as to—

(a) whether a situation in University College, Dublin, is or is not equivalent to an office held by an existing officer immediately before the appointed day, or

(b) whether an office held by an existing officer immediately before the appointed day is or is not an office to which the Superannuation Acts apply, or

(c) as to the amount of any pension, superannuation allowance, or gratuity which an existing officer or his legal personal representative is entitled to receive from University College, Dublin, by virtue of this section,

shall be decided by the Minister for Finance whose decision thereon shall be final.