Foyle Fisheries (Amendment) Act, 1961

Amendments as to powers, etc., of the Commission.

9.—In the Third Schedule to the Principal Act (which contains provisions respecting the Foyle Fisheries Commission)—

(a) at the end of subparagraph (a) of paragraph 2 there shall be added the words “or, in the Foyle area, of any law with respect to fisheries”;

(b) at the beginning of subparagraph (2) of paragraph 8 there shall be inserted the words “The Commission may, with the approval of the Minister and the Ministry, appoint or remove a secretary and, if no secretary is for the time being appointed,”;

(c) at the end of subparagraph (3) of paragraph 16 there shall be added the following subparagraphs:—

“(4) The Commission may, with the approval of the Minister and the Ministry, make a scheme (in this paragraph referred to as a pension scheme) for the provision of pensions or gratuities, or pensions and gratuities, in respect of the service of such officers or servants of the Commission as it may think fit, and any scheme so made shall be carried out by the Commission.

(5) The Commission may, with the approval of the Minister and the Ministry, at any time by a subsequent pension scheme (in this paragraph referred to as an amending scheme) amend a pension scheme or a previous amending scheme, and any such amending scheme may be expressed to operate retrospectively.

(6) Where an amending scheme amends a pension scheme, an officer or servant to whom such pension scheme applies or applied may, within six months after the coming into operation of the amending scheme, elect not to have the amending scheme apply to him and, if he does so elect, the amending scheme shall not apply to him.

(7) An amending scheme shall not terminate or reduce any pension which was, immediately before the coming into force of such amending scheme, payable under the scheme thereby amended.

(8) In this paragraph “service”, in relation to an officer or servant, means service with the Commission from the date of his employment by the Commission and, in the case of a person who became an officer or servant of the Commission by virtue of an employment mentioned in subparagraph (3), may include his service in that employment.”