Limerick City Management Act, 1934

Superannuation of employees.

32.—(1) So long as this section is in force, the Corporation shall be a local body empowered by statute to grant to any of its employees, other than officers, an allowance in respect of the loss of his employment within the meaning of section 53 of the Local Government Act, 1925 (No. 5 of 1925), and the said section 53 shall apply to the city accordingly, but with and subject to the modification that the Corporation shall not grant an allowance under that section to any employee whose period of service with the Corporation (including any period which he is entitled under this Act to reckon as service) is less than twenty years.

(2) This section shall continue in force until the expiration of two years from the appointed day, and shall cease to be in force at the expiration of the said period of two years or, if the said period is extended under the next following sub-section of this section, at the expiration of the last of such extensions.

(3) The Minister, on the application of the Corporation may by order extend the said period of two years mentioned in the next preceding sub-section of this section by adding thereto such further period as he shall think proper.