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Special provision where certain compensation has been awarded.
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14.—Where—
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(a) owing to the award of compensation in respect of the injury or death of a former member of the Dublin Metropolitan Police or the Garda Síochána, a pension has not been awarded or has been granted at a reduced rate, and
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(b) the pension that, apart from the award of compensation, would have been granted would have been increased under this Act,
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the following provisions shall have effect:
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(i) the Minister for Finance may, at his discretion, grant, with effect from (and inclusive of) the 1st day of April, 1949, the pension that, apart from the award of compensation, would have been granted,
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(ii) the pension so granted shall be increased in accordance with this Act, but, as so increased, shall be subject to such reduction in respect of the award of compensation as the Minister for Finance may direct,
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(iii) the pension so granted shall, where there has been a previous grant of a pension at a reduced rate, be in lieu of the latter pension.
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