National Sports Campus Development Authority Act 2006

Superannuation of staff.

15.— (1) The Authority may, with the approval of the Minister given with the consent of the Minister for Finance, make such provision as it considers appropriate in relation to the superannuation of persons appointed under section 14 to, or accepted under section 33 into, the employment of the Authority.

(2) The Authority may, with the approval of the Minister given with the consent of the Minister for Finance, make a scheme or schemes for the granting of superannuation benefits to or in respect of such members of its staff as the Authority thinks fit, and shall carry out such a scheme in accordance with its terms.

(3) A superannuation scheme shall fix the time and conditions of retirement for all persons to or in respect of whom superannuation benefits are payable under the scheme, and different times and conditions may be fixed in respect of different classes of persons.

(4) The Authority may, with the approval of the Minister given with the consent of the Minister for Finance, make a scheme amending or revoking a superannuation scheme, and shall carry out such a scheme in accordance with its terms.

(5) Superannuation benefits granted under this section to persons who on the establishment day become members of the staff of the Authority under section 33 , and the terms and conditions relating to those benefits, shall not be less favourable to those persons than those to which they were entitled immediately before that day.

(6) Superannuation benefits shall not be granted by the Authority to or in respect of any member of its staff, or any other arrangement shall not be entered into by the Authority for the provision of such benefits to such person, except in accordance with a superannuation scheme or, if the Authority, with the approval of the Minister given with the consent of the Minister for Finance, sanctions the granting of such benefits, in accordance with that sanction.

(7) A superannuation scheme shall provide for an appeal from a decision relating to superannuation benefits payable under the scheme.

(8) The Minister shall cause a superannuation scheme to be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is made and, if a resolution annulling the scheme is passed by either such House within the next 21 days on which that House has sat after the scheme is laid before it, the scheme shall be annulled accordingly but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder.

(9) In this section—

“ superannuation benefits ” means pensions, gratuities and other allowances payable to or in respect of a person on ceasing to be a member of the staff of the Authority;

“ a superannuation scheme ” means a superannuation scheme made under subsection (2) or (4).