Oireachtas (Allowances To Members) and Ministerial, Parliamentary, Judicial and Court Offices (Amendment) Act, 1998

Modification of pension provisions of Principal Act as applied to certain court officers.

27.—In the case of a court officer who is serving as such on or after the 19th day of December, 1996, section 57 of the Principal Act shall have effect as if in subsection (1) of that section the following paragraphs were substituted for paragraphs (i) and (ii):

“(i) if he has completed twenty or more years of such service, one-half of the annual remuneration in respect of the office which he ceases to hold, or

(ii) if he has not completed twenty years of such service, one-eighth of the annual remuneration in respect of the office which he ceases to hold together with one-fortieth of that remuneration for each (if any) completed year of service in excess of five.”.