Cork Fever Hospital (Amendment) Act, 1954

Superannuation of transferred officers.

4.—(1) In this section—

“the Act of 1948” means the Local Government (Superannuation) Act, 1948 (No. 4 of 1948);

“appointed day” means the day appointed for the purposes of section 3 of this Act;

“established officer” has the same meaning as in the Act of 1948;

“existing committee” has the same meaning as in the Act of 1935;

“person to whom this section applies” means a person who—

(a) becomes an officer of the Board of Public Assistance for the South Cork Public Assistance District in pursuance of section 43 of the Act of 1935, as amended by this Act, and

(b) was, continuously between the 31st day of March, 1948, and the appointed day, a paid officer of the existing committee.

(2) The name of a person to whom this section applies shall not at any time be entered in the register of established officers maintained by a local authority under section 8 of the Act of 1948, unless—

(a) he had not, on the appointed day, reached the age of sixty years; and

(b) within six months of the appointed day, he applies to the local authority of which he is an officer to enter his name in the register of established officers kept by that local authority.

(3) No contribution under section 31 of the Act of 1948 shall be required from a person to whom this section applies during a continuous period of service beginning on the appointed day.

(4) In any application of section 24 of the Act of 1948 to a person to whom this section applies who becomes an established officer by virtue of this section, the said section 24 shall be construed as if it provided that the lesser sum therein referred to should be increased by one-half per cent. of that sum multiplied by the number of whole years (any fraction of a whole year being disregarded) in his service under the existing committee.

(5) In the case of a person who becomes an officer of the Board of Public Assistance for the South Cork Public Assistance District in pursuance of section 43 of the Act of 1935, the service of such person under the existing committee shall—

(a) where such person becomes an established officer, be reckoned, for the purposes of the Act of 1948, as if it were service as an established officer;

(b) where such person does not become an established officer, be reckoned for the purposes of Part IV of the Local Government Act, 1925 (No. 5 of 1925), as if it were service as an officer of the Board.