National Board For Science and Technology Act, 1977

Superannuation of officers and servants of Board.

28.—(1) As soon as conveniently may be after the establishment day, the Board shall prepare and submit to the Minister and the Minister for the Public Service for approval, a scheme or schemes for the granting of pensions, gratuities and other allowances on retirement or death to or in respect of such wholetime officers or wholetime servants of the Board as it thinks fit.

(2) The Board may at any time prepare and submit to the Minister and the Minister for the Public Service a scheme amending a scheme under this section.

(3) A scheme submitted to the Minister and the Minister for the Public Service under this section shall, if approved of, be carried out by the Board in accordance with its terms.

(4) A scheme submitted and approved of under subsection (1) of this section shall fix the time and conditions of retirement for all persons to whom pensions, gratuities or other allowances are payable under the scheme, and different times and conditions may be fixed in respect of different classes of persons.

(5) If any dispute arises as to the claim of any person to, or the amount of, any pension, gratuity, or other allowance payable in pursuance of a scheme under this section, such dispute shall be submitted to the Minister, who shall refer it to the Minister for the Public Service, whose decision shall be final.

(6) Every scheme submitted and approved of under this section shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is approved of and if either House, within the next twenty-one days on which that House has sat after the scheme is laid before it, passes a resolution annulling the scheme, the scheme shall be annulled accordingly, but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder.