Social Welfare Act, 1984

Cesser of certain offices to local pension committees and provision for compensation.

20.—(1) The offices of clerk to a local pension committee and clerk to a local pension sub-committee shall cease to exist.

(2) The Minister may provide for the payment of compensation to a clerk who, at the time of the cesser of his office by virtue of this section, was in receipt of and entitled to retain the remuneration payable in respect of his office.

(3) The amount of the compensation payable to a person under this section shall be equal to—

(a) one week's remuneration for each completed year of his service up to fifteen years, and

(b) two weeks' remuneration for each completed year of his service in excess of fifteen years,

subject to a maximum of seventy-eight weeks' remuneration, his remuneration being taken to be the remuneration payable to him at the time of the cesser of his office by virtue of this section.