Civil Service Regulation Act, 1956
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Interpretation. |
1.—(1) In this Act | |
“the Act of 1859” means the Superannuation Act, 1859 ; | ||
“the Act of 1919” means the Superannuation (Prison Officers) Act, 1919 ; | ||
“appropriate authority” has the meaning assigned to it by section 2; | ||
“civil servant” means a person holding a position in the Civil Service, and includes a member of the staff of the Houses of the Oireachtas; | ||
“the Civil Service” means the Civil Service of the Government and the Civil Service of the State; | ||
“established civil servant” means a civil servant who is rendering established service; | ||
“established position” means a position in which established service is rendered; | ||
“established service” means service in a capacity in respect of which a superannuation allowance may be granted under the Superannuation Acts, 1834 to 1954; | ||
“member of the staff of the Houses of the Oireachtas” does not include an officer of the Houses of the Oireachtas; | ||
“the Minister” means the Minister for Finance; | ||
“officer of the Houses of the Oireachtas” means a person being— | ||
(a) the Clerk or Clerk-Assistant of Dáil Éireann or Seanad Éireann, or | ||
(b) the Librarian or Assistant Librarian, Houses of the Oireachtas, or | ||
(c) the Superintendent, Houses of the Oireachtas, or | ||
(d) the Captain of the Guard, Houses of the Oireachtas; | ||
“officer to whom the Act of 1919 applies” means a civil servant to whom subsection (1) of section 1 of the Act of 1919 applies; | ||
“suspend” means, in relation to a civil servant, suspend from duty, and cognate words shall be construed accordingly; | ||
“suspending authority” has the meaning assigned to it by section 3; | ||
“transferred officer” has the meaning assigned to it by section 1 of the Civil Service (Transferred Officers) Compensation Act, 1929 (No. 36 of 1929). | ||
(2) A person, who is serving, on leave of absence without pay from the Civil Service, in a position not in the Civil Service, shall, notwithstanding his absence from the Civil Service, be, for the purposes of this Act, a civil servant and, if his position in the Civil Service was, immediately before his leave of absence commenced, an established position, he shall be, for the purposes of this Act, an established civil servant, notwithstanding that his service during leave of absence is not reckonable as service for the purposes of the Superannuation Acts, 1834 to 1954. | ||
(3) References in this Act to any enactment shall be construed as references to that enactment as amended or adapted by any subsequent enactment. | ||
(4) In this Act a reference by number to a section is to the section of this Act bearing that number unless it is indicated that a reference to another Act is intended. |