Public Service Superannuation (Age of Retirement) Act 2018

Amendment of section 1 of Principal Act

2. Section 1(1) of the Principal Act is amended by the insertion of the following definitions:

“ ‘Act of 2012’ means the Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme and Other Provisions) Act 2012 ;

‘relevant public servant’ means a public servant who is not any of the following:

(a) a member of either House of the Oireachtas or a member of the European Parliament;

(b) the holder of a qualifying office;

(c) a new entrant;

(d) a Scheme member;

(e) a person to whom, if he or she were a Scheme member, section 13(4) or 26(1) of the Act of 2012 would apply;

(f) a person who—

(i) before the coming into operation of section 3 of the Public Service Superannuation (Age of Retirement) Act 2018, retired from a public service body upon or after attaining the age of 65 years, and

(ii) on the coming into operation of that section, is employed by a public service body;

(g) a person who is employed by the Central Bank of Ireland;

‘Scheme member’ has the same meaning as it has in the Act of 2012;”.