National Agricultural Advisory, Education and Research Authority Act, 1977

Addition to pensionable service of transferred officers.

68.—(1) Where, within the period between the commencement of section 65 and the coming into operation of a scheme approved by the Minister under section 35 which is applicable to the officer concerned, an allowance to which section 66 relates falls for payment to a transferred officer who before his transfer was a pensionable officer of a committee of agriculture and to whom section 13 of the Act of 1956 is applicable, the Board may decide to add a period of years to the officer's pensionable service as if the Authority were a local authority and, in that event, the allowance shall be calculated and paid by the Authority in relation to the officer's total pensionable service, including any addition thereto that may have been decided on under this subsection.

(2) Where, under subsection (1), a period of years has been added to the pensionable service of a transferred officer and an allowance to which section 66 relates is paid by the Authority to the officer, the council of the county which appointed the committee shall, notwithstanding section 67, refund to the Authority such proportion of the allowance attributable to the period of years so added as the officer's pensionable local service bears to his total pensionable service (excluding any period added under this section).