Irish Sports Council Act, 1999

Staff of Council.

22.—(1) The Council may appoint such number of persons to be members of its staff as it may determine with the consent of the Minister and the Minister for Finance.

(2) The grades of the Council's staff, the number of staff in each grade and the appropriate level of remuneration for each grade shall be determined by the Council with the consent of the Minister and the Minister for Finance.

(3) The Council's staff shall be paid out of moneys at the Council's disposal.

(4) An established civil servant who immediately before the establishment day was a member of the staff of the Department of Tourism, Sport and Recreation and who is designated by the Minister for the purpose of this section shall, on that day, be transferred to and become a member of the Council's staff.

(5) Except in accordance with a collective agreement negotiated with any recognised trade union or staff association concerned, a person who is transferred in accordance with subsection (4) to the Council's staff shall not, while in the Council's service, receive a lesser scale of pay or be made subject to less beneficial terms and conditions of service than the scale of pay to which he or she was entitled and the terms and conditions of service to which he or she was subject immediately before his or her transfer.

(6) In relation to persons transferred in accordance with subsection (4) to the Council's staff, previous service in the civil service shall be reckonable for the purposes of, but subject to any exceptions or exclusions in—

(a) the Redundancy Payments Acts, 1967 to 1991,

(b) the Minimum Notice and Terms of Employment Acts, 1973 to 1991,

(c) the Unfair Dismissals Acts, 1977 to 1993,

(d) the Terms of Employment (Information) Act, 1994 , and

(e) the Organisation of Working Time Act, 1997 .

(7) In this section “established civil servant” has the same meaning as in the Superannuation and Pensions Act, 1976 .