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XLVIII. Provided always, and be it enacted, That the Conditions and Proportions of such Allowance, Remuneration, or Superannuation shall be as follows; (that is to say,) where any Person applying for the same shall be under Sixty Years of Age it shall not be lawful to grant any such Allowance, Compensation, Remuneration, or Superannuation, unless as herein-after provided, or upon Certificate from such Persons as may be appointed by the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors for the medical Inspection of Persons appointed under this Act or any of the said recited Acts, that such Person is incapable, from Infirmity of Mind or Body, to discharge the Duties of his Office, in which Case, if he shall have served with Diligence and Fidelity for Fifteen Years, it shall and may be lawful to grant to him by way of Superannuation an annual Sum not exceeding One Half of the Salary of his Office; if above Fifteen Years and less than Twenty, any Sum not exceeding Two Thirds of such Salary; if above Twenty Years, any such Sum not exceeding the whole of such Salary; and if such Person shall be above Sixty Years of Age, and he shall have served Fifteen Years or upwards, it shall and may be lawful, although there shall be no Certificate of Incapacity from Infirmity or Injury of Body or Mind, to grant him by way of Superannuation any annual Sum not exceeding Two Thirds of the Salary of his Office; if Sixty-five Years of Age or upwards, and he shall have served Forty Years or upwards, any Sum not exceeding Three Fourths of such Salary; if Sixty-five Years of Age or upwards, and he shall have served Fifty Years or upwards, any such Sum not exceeding the whole of such Salary: Provided always, that if any such Person shall be disabled by any Wound or Injury received in the actual Execution of the Duty of his Office, it shall and may be lawful to grant to him such yearly Allowance or Remuneration as may, in the Opinion of the Lord Lieutenant or Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland, be proportioned to the Nature of the Injury received, without reference to the Length of his Service, provided that such Allowance or Remuneration shall in no Case exceed the whole of such Salary, and that in calculating the Period for which any such Person has served, the Time he may have served under any of such recited Acts shall be reckoned: Provided also, that every such yearly Superannuation Allowance may, at the Time of its being granted, or at any Time afterwards, be commuted for a Gratuity, payable immediately, at such Rate as the Lord Lieutenant or the Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland for the Time being may approve of.
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