Limerick Corporation Gas Undertaking (Pensions) Act, 1929

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Number 1 (Private) of 1929.

LIMERICK CORPORATION GAS UNDERTAKING (PENSIONS) ACT, 1929.

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

SCHEDULE.

Number 1 (Private) of 1929.

LIMERICK CORPORATION GAS UNDERTAKING (PENSIONS) ACT, 1929.

AN ACT TO ENABLE THE MAYOR, ALDERMEN AND BURGESSES OF THE COUNTY BOROUGH OF LIMERICK TO GRANT PENSIONS OR ALLOWANCES IN CERTAIN CASES TO ARTISANS WORKMEN LABOURERS OR SERVANTS HERETOFORE EMPLOYED IN CONNECTION WITH THE GAS UNDERTAKING OF THE SAID MAYOR ALDERMEN AND BURGESSES. [23rd April, 1929.]

16 and 17 Vict. c.194.

WHEREAS by the Limerick Improvement Act 1853 certain powers were (amongst others) conferred upon the Mayor Aldermen and Burgesses of the Borough of Limerick (hereinafter referred to as “the Corporation”) as to the lighting of the Borough with Gas:

41 and 42 Vict. c.160.

AND WHEREAS by the Limerick Corporation Gas Act 1878 certain further powers and duties as to the lighting of the Borough with gas were conferred upon the Corporation and by the said Act it was provided that the gas undertaking of the Corporation should be managed and controlled by the Corporation acting by the Borough Council and with the assistance of the Gas Committee constituted by the said Act in whom certain powers and duties relating to the management of the said gas undertaking were vested:

AND WHEREAS the Corporation have recently undertaken certain works for the improvement of the said gas undertaking by the erection and installation of modern plant and machinery including vertical retorts and by the laying of new mains and replacing existing mains within the area supplied by the said gas undertaking:

AND WHEREAS the erection and installation of the said modern plant and machinery will enable the Gas Committee to reduce the number of their employees in connection with the said gas undertaking and will involve the dismissal of certain artisans workmen labourers and servants heretofore employed in connection with the said gas undertaking:

AND WHEREAS it is expedient that the Corporation should be empowered to grant and pay compensation by way of pensions or allowances in certain cases to artisans workmen labourers and servants heretofore in the employment of the Gas Committee:

AND WHEREAS the purposes of this Act cannot be effected without the authority of the Oireachtas:

BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS OF SAORSTÁT EIREANN AS FOLLOWS:—