Hospitals' Trust (1940) Limited (Payments To Former Employees) Act, 2000

Reference of applications for payment of lump sum to Committee.

6.—(1) Every application for the grant of a lump sum under section 2 shall be referred by the Minister to the Committee.

(2) The Committee shall investigate an application referred to it for the purpose of ascertaining, as appropriate—

(a) whether the applicant is a former employee or the personal representative of a former employee or, as the case may be, whether the application relates to a person who is a former employee,

(b) in case the application purports to be made on behalf of a former employee by a person who is not the personal representative of the employee, the nature and extent of that person's authority to act on behalf of the former employee.

and shall, as soon as may be, prepare a report in writing on the result of the investigation and shall transmit the report to the Minister.

(3) The Committee shall furnish to the Minister such information as he or she may from time to time require regarding its activities.

(4) The Committee may, for the purposes of an investigation under this section, require an applicant to answer a question, furnish information or produce a document or thing relevant to the investigation of the application concerned.