Superannuation Act, 1936

Reckoning of teaching service as established service in certain cases.

21.—(1) The Minister may make regulations prescribing the conditions under which persons for the time being in the civil service of Saorstát Eireann who have served (whether before or after or partly before and partly after the passing of this Act) in that civil service as inspector or as organiser in the Department of Education may be allowed to reckon teaching service performed before appointment as such inspector or organiser as established service for the purposes of the Superannuation Acts in the said civil service, and also prescribing the nature of the teaching service and the amount thereof which may be so reckoned and the extent to which and the manner in which such teaching service may be so reckoned.

(2) If and when regulations are made by the Minister under the foregoing sub-section of this section, every person to whom such regulations apply may be allowed, under the conditions, to the extent, and in the manner prescribed by such regulations, to reckon such teaching service and such amount thereof as shall be so prescribed as established service in the civil service of Saorstát Eireann for the purposes of the Superannuation Acts.

(3) The conditions prescribed by regulations made under this section shall include a condition that, in the case of persons who are transferred officers within the meaning of the Civil Service (Transferred Officers) Compensation Act, 1929 (No. 36 of 1929), no benefit accruing under or by virtue of this section shall be taken into account in determining any question of compensation under that Act.