Local, Government (Superannuation) Act, 1948

Transitional provision with respect to service in the teaching of the Irish language.

36.—(1) An established officer of a vocational education committee shall be entitled to reckon as service any period which is, as respects such officer, a period to which this section applies.

(2) A period—

(a) which began after an established officer of a vocational education committee attained the age of twenty-one years and ended before the 31st of July, 1924, and

(b) as respects which the Minister for Education is satisfied that during the whole thereof such officer devoted the whole of his time under the direction of Connradh na Gaedhilge to the teaching of the Irish language or to the organisation of such teaching,

shall, as respects such officer, be a period to which this section applies if it is five years or more in duration or it is one of two or more such periods as aforesaid amounting in the aggregate to five years or more in duration.