Local Government Act, 1925

PART IV.

SUPERANNUATION, ETC.

Definitions.

42.—In this Part of this Act—

the expression “local body” means and includes every local authority except a committee of management of a district lunatic asylum;

the expression “pensionable officer” means any officer (other than a temporary officer) who either—

(a) devotes the whole of his time to the service of one or more local bodies, or

(b) is required by virtue of his office to be a registered medical practitioner, nurse, or midwife,

and the said expression also includes the following persons, that is to say:—

(i) any person who, as an officer, has devoted the whole of his time to the service of one or more committees or joint committees, appointed for the purpose of the Agriculture and Technical Instruction (Ireland) Act, 1899, for a continuous period of not less than ten years upon terms which do not expressly preclude him from receiving a pension and notwithstanding that his appointment was or is renewable periodically: Provided that for the purposes of this paragraph the period of service of such a person shall be deemed to be continuous, notwithstanding that at any time between the 1st day of January, 1919, and the 6th day of December, 1921, such service was interrupted for a period of not more than six months owing to the committee or joint committee in whose service such person then was having ceased to administer the said Agriculture and Technical Instruction (Ireland) Act, 1899, and

(ii) any person duly appointed standing solicitor of a local body before the passing of the Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1919, and

(iii) any person permanently appointed before the passing of this Act to be a compounder of medicine for the purposes of any Act relating to the relief of the poor,

and the expression “pensionable office” shall be construed accordingly;

the expression “emoluments” includes all fees, poundage and other payments made to an officer as such for his own use, and also the money value of any apartments, rations or other allowances in kind appertaining to his office;

the expression “yearly salary and emoluments” means in relation to an officer who has served for not less than three years, the average amount of his salary and emoluments during the three years ending on the quarter day which immediately precedes the day on which he ceases to hold his office, and in relation to an officer who has served for less than three years, the average amount of his salary and emoluments during each completed year of his service.