Transport (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1971

Transfer of officers and servants of Joint Committee.

11.—(1) Subject to subsection (2), every person who, immediately before the transfer date, was an officer or servant of the Joint Committee shall on that date become an officer or servant of the Board on the same terms and conditions of service.

(2) (a) Any such officer or servant who, immediately before the transfer date, was a member of the Railway Clearing System Superannuation Fund shall continue to be an officer or servant of the Joint Committee and shall, on and after that date, be seconded for duty to the Board.

(b) The obligations, whether obtaining legally or by customary practice, of the Joint Committee under the Railway Clearing System Superannuation Fund in respect of every such officer or servant shall continue to be binding on the Joint Committee and, after the dissolution of the Joint Committee, these obligations, or such corresponding obligations as may arise under any superannuation fund established in lieu of the Railway Clearing System Superannuation Fund for the benefit of such officers or servants, shall bind the Board.

(c) All moneys from time to time required by the Joint Committee to discharge its obligations in respect of any such officer or servant shall on demand be paid to it by the Board.

(d) All the rights and obligations conferred or imposed on the Joint Committee by the contract of service or by law in respect of an officer or servant so seconded shall, save as provided by paragraph (b), be rights and obligations of the Board.

(e) On the dissolution of the Joint Committee every seconded officer or servant then in its service shall become an officer or servant of the Board on the same terms and conditions of service.

(3) (a) The obligations, whether obtaining legally or by customary practice, of the Joint Committee under the Railway Clearing System Superannuation Fund in respect of every person who, immediately before the transfer date, is entitled to benefit under that Fund shall continue to be binding on the Joint Committee and, after the dissolution of the Joint Committee, these obligations, or such corresponding obligations as may arise under any superannuation fund established in lieu of that Fund for the benefit of such persons, shall bind the Board.

(b) All moneys from time to time required by the Joint Committee to discharge its obligations in respect of any such person shall on demand be paid to it by the Board.

(4) Where, by virtue of this section, an officer or servant of the Joint Committee becomes an officer or servant of the Board or is seconded for duty to the Board, he shall, notwithstanding anything in the Redundancy Payments Act, 1967 , be deemed not to have been dismissed by reason of redundancy within the meaning of that Act.