Agriculture Act, 1931

Transfer of officers to committees of agriculture.

43.—(1) Every person who, on the day before the commencement of this Act, is an officer of a committee appointed under the Act of 1899 by the council of a county or of such council in relation to or for the purposes of functions, powers and duties performed by such council through such committee shall, on the commencement of this Act, be transferred to and become and be an officer of the committee of agriculture for such county.

(2) Every officer transferred by this section shall, subject to the provisions of this section, perform in the service of the committee of agriculture to which he is so transferred the like duties as he performed in the service from which he is so transferred.

(3) Every officer transferred by this section shall not, in the service of the committee of agriculture to which he is so transferred, receive less remuneration, or subject to the provisions of this section, be subject to less beneficial conditions of service than the remuneration to which he was entitled and the conditions of service to which he was subject in the service from which he is so transferred.

(4) A committee of agriculture may, with the approval of the Minister, redistribute or rearrange the duties to be performed by officers transferred to it by this section and every such officer shall be bound to perform the duties allotted to him on any such redistribution or rearrangement, and no such redistribution or rearrangement shall be deemed to be a removal from or abolition of office for the purposes of the enactments relating to superannuation and compensation for loss of office.

(5) A committee of agriculture may, with the sanction of the Minister, and shall, when so directed by the Minister, abolish the office of any officer transferred to it by this section and every such officer whose office is so abolished shall, for the purpose of the enactments relating to superannuation and compensation for loss of office, be deemed to have been removed from office by such committee for a cause other than misconduct or incapacity.