Regional Technical Colleges (Amendment) Act, 1999

Provisions relating to staff.

9.—(1) Every person who, immediately before the establishment day, is employed as an officer or servant by the Institute of Technology, Tallaght, for the purpose of working for the Company shall, with effect from the establishment day, become and be an officer or servant of the College, as appropriate.

(2) A person to whom subsection (1) applies shall not, while in the service of the College, receive less remuneration or be subject to less beneficial conditions of service than the remuneration to which that person was entitled and the conditions of service to which that person was subject prior to the establishment day.

(3) The conditions of service, restrictions, requirements and obligations to which any such person was subject immediately before the establishment day shall, unless they are varied by agreement, continue to apply to that person, and shall be exercised or imposed by the College or the Director, as may be appropriate, while that person is in the service of the College.

(4) The service of a person, to whom subsection (1) applies, with the Institute of Technology, Tallaght, before the establishment day shall form part of his or her pensionable service with the College for the purposes of the Local Government (Superannuation) Act, 1980 .

(5) Subject to subsection (6), the Local Government (Superannuation) Act, 1980 , shall apply to the College and its officers and servants (including the Director) as if it were a local authority and they were officers and servants of a local authority.

(6) The functions conferred on the Minister for the Environment and Local Government by the Local Government (Superannuation) Act, 1980 , or any instrument made thereunder, shall, for the purposes of that Act as applied to the College by subsection (5), be performable by the Minister and not by the said Minister of the Government.

(7) Schemes and regulations made before the commencement of this section under the Local Government (Superannuation) Act, 1980 , (including modifications to such schemes and regulations made under section 11(8) of the Principal Act) shall, subject to any modifications which the Minister may, with the consent of the Minister for Finance, specify by order, apply to the officers and servants (including the Director) of the College.

(8) Subsection (8) of section 11 of the Principal Act shall not apply to the College.