Superannuation and Pensions Act, 1923

Amendment of Pensions (Increase) Act, 1920, in regard to teachers pensions.

6.—(1) For the purpose of calculating the amount of the increase of pension to which any pensioner to whom this section applies is entitled under the Pensions (Increase) Act, 1920 , the increase made by the Irish Teachers' Pensions Rules, 1914, in the pension of such pensioner shall be deemed to have been made before and not after the 4th day of August, 1914.

(2) The pensioners to whom this section applies are pensioners who are at the date of the passing of this Act in receipt of a pension under the National School Teachers (Ireland) Act, 1879, and to whom Section 1 of the Pensions (Increase) Act, 1920 , applies.

(3) Any increase of pension to which a pensioner becomes entitled by virtue of this section shall take effect and be payable as from the 1st day of April, 1922.

(4) No increase of pension shall be payable by virtue of this section in respect of any period during which the pensioner is not ordinarily resident in Saorstát Eireann.

(5) The Minister for Finance may, in addition to the matters mentioned in Section 4 of the Pensions (Increase) Act, 1920 , make regulations under that section for determining for the purposes of Part II. of the Schedule of that Act the amount of the increase of pensionable emoluments of any pensioner to whom this section applies.