Superannuation and Pensions Act, 1976

Minister may amend certain existing civil service superannuation provisions.

3.—(1) The Minister may, to the extent specified in the third column of the First Schedule to this Act and within the period beginning on the passing of this Act and ending on the commencement of section 11 of this Act, by regulation provide for the cesser of or otherwise amend any enactment mentioned in the second column of that Schedule (which enactments relate to the superannuation of persons to whom section 2 of this Act applies) together with any statutory instrument, in so far as it is made, or is deemed to have been made, under any enactment mentioned in the said third column.

(2) Subject to subsection (4) of this section, the Minister may by regulations provide for the cesser of or otherwise amend any provision in any statute or statutory instrument where it appears to him that the provision is inconsistent with, or has become unnecessary or requires to be adapted, modified or otherwise amended in consequence of, any provision of regulations under this section.

(3) Subject to subsection (4) of this section, the Minister may by regulations amend the First Schedule to this Act so as to extend the application of subsection (1) of this section either to the whole of, or to any enactment contained in, any statute.

(4) Regulations under this section which—

(a) provide for the cesser or other amendment of any provision of, or of any statutory instrument made under, the Social Welfare Acts,

(b) extend the application of subsection (1) of this section to the whole of, or to any enactment contained in, any statute comprised in the Social Welfare Acts,

shall be made by the Minister only with the consent of the Minister for Social Welfare.

(5) Where regulations under subsection (3) of this section are proposed to be made by the Minister, a draft of the regulations shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas and the regulations shall not be made until a resolution approving of the draft has been approved by each such House.

(6) The amendment of any provision by regulations under this section shall not prejudice any power to amend that provision conferred otherwise than by this section.

(7) Regulations under this section may have retrospective effect as on and from any day which is not earlier than the 1st day of January, 1970.