Currency Act, 1927

Offices and staff of the Commission.

31.—(1) The Commission may purchase, take on lease, build or otherwise acquire and may equip and maintain such offices and other premises in such places as it considers necessary for the due performance of its functions under this Act and may sell or let any such premises which it considers to be no longer necessary for that purpose.

(2) The Commission shall appoint a secretary and such other officers and servants as the Commission shall from time to time consider necessary for the due performance of its functions under this Act and every secretary, officer, and servant so appointed shall hold office upon such terms and subject to such conditions as the Commission shall determine.

(3) There shall be paid to the secretary and the other officers and servants of the Commission such salaries and remuneration as the Commission may determine.

(4) The Commission may, with the approval of the Minister, make a scheme providing for the grant of superannuation and other allowances or gratuities to or for the benefit of such of its officers and servants as it thinks proper and may, out of the funds available under this Act for the defrayal of the expenses of the Commission, pay to such persons on retirement or to their legal personal representatives on death superannuation and other allowances or gratuities in accordance with such scheme, and the Minister may determine the said funds to be public funds for the purposes of the Superannuation Act, 1892 .

(5) Every scheme made by the Commission under the foregoing sub-section shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is made and if either such House within the next subsequent twenty-one days on which it has sat after such scheme is laid before it, passes a resolution annulling such scheme, such scheme shall be annulled accordingly, but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done there under.