Garda Síochána (Pensions) Act, 1947

Cost of living index number and bonus for purposes of sections 4 and 5 of this Act.

6.—For the purposes of sections 4 and 5 of this Act,

(a) the cost-of-living index number at the date of the ceasing of a former member of the Garda Síochána to be a member of the Garda Síochána shall be deemed to be the index, number by reference to which cost-of-living bonus would have been paid to civil servants at that date if any of the Civil Service (Stabilisation of Bonus) Regulations, 1940 to 1945, had not been made;

(b) the bonus calculated by reference to any cost-of-living index number shall be calculated as if it were the cost-of-living bonus payable to a civil servant whose basic remuneration was equal to the hypothetical basic pay of such former member,