Mental Treatment Act, 1961

Certain service to be regarded as service in Civil Service.

40.—Where—

(a) a person has, during a period ending on the commencement of this section, been serving in an established position in the civil service of the Government,

(b) such person was, during a period ending on the commencement of the period specified in paragraph (a) of this section, paying contributions, as to part of the period, under the Asylum Officers' Superannuation Act, 1909 , and, as to the remainder of the period, under Part VIII of the Principal Act, in respect of an office the duties of which related to the same matters as the duties of such established position, and

(c) such person was, during a period ending on the commencement of the period specified in paragraph (b) of this section, serving in an established position in the Civil Service of Saorstát Éireann the duties of which related to the same matters as the duties of the established position referred to in paragraph (a) of this section,

the aggregate of the periods specified in paragraphs (b) and (c) of this section shall, for the purposes of the Superannuation Acts, 1834 to 1956, be regarded as service in an established position in the civil service of the Government.