Local, Government (Superannuation) Act, 1948

Regulations permitting reckoning by officer of vocational education committee of service as teacher.

72.—(1) The Minister, after consultation with the Minister for Education and with the consent of the Minister for Finance, may make regulations permitting an officer of a vocational education committee who before he became such an officer had teaching service as a national school teacher or a secondary school teacher or a vocational or technical school teacher or any combination of such services to reckon such teaching service as service, and the regulations may prescribe the nature of the teaching service and the amount thereof which may be so reckoned and the extent to which and the manner in which the teaching service may be so reckoned.

(2) Where a lump sum, allowance or gratuity is paid by a local authority to or in respect of an officer and, in determining the amount of the lump sum, allowance or gratuity, any period during which the officer was a secondary school teacher has been reckoned pursuant to regulations under this section, the Minister for Finance, after consultation with the Minister for Education, may determine what part or parts (if any) of the lump sum, allowance or gratuity shall be paid out of the Secondary Teachers' Pension Fund, and thereupon the Minister for Education may refund to the local authority out of that fund any part or parts so determined.

(3) Where a lump sum, allowance or gratuity is paid by a local authority to or in respect of an officer and, in determining the amount of the lump sum, allowance or gratuity, any period during which the officer was a national school teacher has been reckoned pursuant to regulations under this section, the Minister for Finance, after consultation with the Minister for Education, may determine what part or parts (if any) of the lump sum, allowance or gratuity shall be borne by the State, and thereupon the Minister for Education may refund to the local authority any part or parts so determined out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas.