Garda Síochána (Pensions) Act, 1933
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Grant of pensions under this Act. |
1.—(1) Where a Commissioner of the Gárda Síochána has been removed (whether before or after the passing of this Act) from the Gárda Síochána and, within whichever of the following periods later expires, that is to say, one month after the passing of this Act or six months after such removal, the President certifies in writing under his hand that such Commissioner was so removed for a reason other than incapacity or misconduct, the Minister for Finance may, on the recommendation of the Minister for Justice, grant and pay to such Commissioner a pension for his life of an amount calculated in accordance with this section and commencing on the cessation of the pay of such Commissioner. | |
(2) Every pension granted under this Act shall be calculated at the rate of one-sixtieth of the annual pay of which the person to whom such pension is granted was in receipt as Commissioner of the Gárda Síochána immediately before his removal therefrom for every completed year of his pensionable service (calculated in accordance with this section), together with, where such pensionable service amounts to or exceeds twenty-one completed years, an additional one-sixtieth of such annual pay for the twenty-first and every subsequent completed year of such pensionable service, but so that no such pension shall exceed two-thirds of such annual pay. | ||
(3) The pensionable service of any person for the purposes of this Act shall be taken to be the number of completed years actually served by him in the Gárda Síochána together with— | ||
(a) where the said number of completed years is less than ten, the addition of either (as the Minister for Finance shall direct) such number of years as will bring the said number of completed years up to ten or a number of years equal to the said number of completed years, or | ||
(b) where the said number of completed years amounts to or exceeds ten, the addition of such number of years, not exceeding twelve, as the Minister for Finance shall direct. | ||
(4) For the purposes of this section, service in the police force which existed in Saorstát Eireann under the name of “The Civic Guard” before the passing of the Gárda Síochána (Temporary Provisions) Act, 1923 (No. 37 of 1923), and service in the police force maintained in Saorstát Eireann under the name of “The Gárda Síochána” before the commencement of the Police Forces Amalgamation Act, 1925 (No. 7 of 1925), and service in the Dublin Metropolitan Police before the commencement of the last-mentioned Act shall be reckoned as service in the Gárda Síochána. |