Vocational Education Act, 1930
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Application of Part IV. of the Act of 1925. |
25.—(1) Every vocational education committee shall be deemed to be a local body within the meaning of Part IV. of the Act of 1925 and that part of that Act shall apply to vocational education committees and their officers accordingly, subject to the modifications hereinafter mentioned. | |
(2) Section 50 of the Act of 1925 shall not apply in respect of vocational education committees and their officers, and in lieu thereof it is hereby enacted that every sum payable under the said Part IV. of the Act of 1925 as applied by this section in respect of an allowance or gratuity granted thereunder to a person who was previously an officer of a vocational education committee shall be paid by the local authority which under this Act pays the annual local contribution to the expenses of such committee and shall be raised by means of the same rate and be paid out of the same fund and be charged on the same area as such annual local contribution is raised by means of, paid out of and charged upon, but no such sum shall be reckoned for the purposes of any enactment (including this Act) limiting the amount of such rate. | ||
(3) There shall be paid out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas to a local authority paying any allowance or gratuity in pursuance of the foregoing sub-section, in aid of the rate or fund out of which such allowance or gratuity is so paid, one half of every payment made by such local authority in respect of such allowance or gratuity. | ||
(4) Section 47 of the Act of 1925 as amended by section 9 of the Act of 1927 shall not apply in respect of vocational education committees and their officers, and in lieu thereof it is hereby enacted that— | ||
(a) whenever an allowance or a gratuity is payable in pursuance of sub-section (2) of this section by a local authority (in this sub-section called the paying body) to any person under Part IV. of the Act of 1925 as applied by this section in respect of his ceasing to hold office under a vocational education committee and in ascertaining the service of such officer at the date of such cesser any service under another local authority (in this section called the contributing body) has been aggregated and reckoned, the contributing body shall refund to the paying body a part of one-half of such allowance or gratuity reckoned according to the service and pay of such officer under the contributing body and to the circumstances under which he ceased to hold office under the paying body, and such part shall be settled by agreement between the two bodies, or in default of agreement by the Minister for Local Government and Public Health, and | ||
(b) for the purposes of the foregoing paragraph an officer's service under a committee of a contributing body shall be deemed to have been service under such contributing body and an officer's service under a joint committee of two or more contributing bodies shall be deemed to have been service under every such contributing body. |