Police Forces Amalgamation Act, 1925

Pensions, etc., of members of the amalgamated force.

13.—(1) The Minister may, with the sanction of the Minister for Finance, from time to time by order authorise the grant and payment of pensions, allowances and gratuities to officers and men of the amalgamated force and to their widows, children and dependants, and regulate and appoint the rates and scales of such pensions, allowances, and gratuities and the conditions under which the same are to be payable, and may by any such order prescribe the penalties for any fraudulent conduct in relation to an application for any such pension, allowance, or gratuity.

(2) Before making an order under this section the Minister shall cause the draft of the order to be submitted to the several representative bodies representing the several ranks and grades in the amalgamated force who would be affected by the order when made and shall consider any representations made to him in respect of the draft order by any such representative body.

(3) Until varied by an order made under this section and subject to any such variation—

(a) every statute, order, or regulation in force immediately before the commencement of this Act authorising the grant or payment of pensions, allowances, or gratuities to members of the Dublin Metropolitan Police or to their widows, children, or dependants, or regulating or prescribing the amount or conditions of any such pension, allowance, or gratuity shall continue to apply to those members of the amalgamated force who immediately before the commencement of this Act were members of the Dublin Metropolitan Police in the like manner and to the same extent as such statute, order, or regulation applied to them immediately before the commencement of this Act, save that anything required or authorised by any such statute, order or regulation to be done by the Commissioner of the Dublin Metropolitan Police shall or may be done by the Minister, and for the purposes of such statute, order, or regulation, service in the amalgamated force shall be deemed to be service in the Dublin Metropolitan Police and every member of the amalgamated force to whom such statute, order, or regulation so applies shall for the purpose thereof be deemed to hold the rank in the Dublin Metropolitan Police corresponding to the rank for the time being held by him in the amalgamated force; and

(b) every order made by the Minister under section 8 of the Gárda Síochána Act, 1924 , and in force immediately before the commencement of this Act shall apply to all members of the amalgamated force who were not immediately before the commencement of this Act members of the Dublin Metropolitan Police and for the purpose of any such order service in the amalgamated force shall be deemed to be service in the Gárda Síochána, and every member of the amalgamated force to whom the order so applies shall for the purpose thereof be deemed to hold the rank in the Gárda Síochána corresponding to the rank for the time being held by him in the amalgamated force.

(4) No order made under this section shall come into operation unless and until it has been laid before each House of the Oireachtas, and approved by a resolution of each such House.