Civil Service Commissioners Act, 1956

Operation of the Act.

6.—(1) This Act shall cease to apply to members of the staff of the Houses of the Oireachtas on the date on which the Regulation Act ceases, by virtue of subsection (1) of section 20 of that Act, to apply to members of the staff of the Houses of the Oireachtas.

(2) This Act—

(a) does not apply to the appointment of a person to a position being—

(i) a position, the appointment to which is made by the Government, or

(ii) the position held by an officer of the Houses of the Oireachtas,

(b) does not, save as is provided by section 4, apply to the appointment of a person to a scheduled occupation, whether the Minister has or has not under subsection (3) of section 4 decided that such appointment is to a position in the Civil Service,

(c) does not, save as is provided by section 5, apply to the appointment of a person to a position which is for the time being an excluded position,

(d) does not apply to the appointment of a superannuated person to an established position consequential on his being called upon, under section 11 of the Superannuation Act, 1859, to serve again in the Civil Service,

(e) does not, save as is provided by subsection (2) of section 27, apply to the appointment of a person to a position under section 7 or 15 of the Regulation Act,

(f) does not, save as is provided by subsection (3) of section 27, apply to the appointment of a person to the position of commissioner for the special purposes of the Income Tax Acts,

(g) does not apply to the appointment of a person to a position in which such person is required to serve on trial under section 11 or 12 of the Regulation Act,

(h) does not apply to the employment of civilians by the Minister for Defence under section 30 of the Defence Act, 1954 (No. 18 of 1954).

(3) Nothing in this Act shall be construed as affecting section 13 of the British statute (17 & 18 Vic. c. 99) passed in the year 1854 and entitled “An Act to provide for the Establishment of a National Gallery of Paintings, Sculpture, and the Fine Arts, for the Care of a Public Library, and the Erection of a Public Museum, in Dublin.”