Local Government Act, 1933

Appointment by local authority of persons formerly removed from or refused office or employment.

4.—(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Local Authorities (Officers and Employees) Act, 1926 (No. 39 of 1926), it shall be lawful for any local authority, within a period of five years from the passing of this Act, to appoint with the sanction of the Minister to any office or employment under such local authority any person who in the opinion of the Minister was removed from, or was refused appointment or not appointed to, such office or employment or any office or employment analogous thereto whether under the same or another local authority in Saorstát Eireann as a result of the operation of section 71 of the Principal Act or for political reasons, or any person who in the opinion of the Minister was removed for political reasons from an analogous office or employment under a local authority in any part of Ireland outside Saorstát Eireann.

(2) Any person who is appointed under sub-section (1) of this section to an office or employment may, when so appointed, be placed on the salary scale which, in the opinion of the Minister, he would have reached at the time of such appointment if he had not suffered any such removal or refusal as is mentioned in the said sub-section.