Oireachtas (Allowances To Members) (Amendment) Act, 1968
Amendment of section 6A of Oireachtas (Allowances to Members) Act, 1938. |
1.—Section 6A of the Oireachtas (Allowances to Members) Act, 1938 (being the section inserted by section 5 of the Oireachtas (Allowances to Members) and Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices (Amendment) Act, 1960 ), as amended by section 30 of the Superannuation and Pensions Act, 1963 , is hereby further amended by the addition of the following subsection: | |
“(6) (a) Notwithstanding anything contained in the foregoing subsections of this section— | ||
(i) an amendment under subsection (4) of this section may provide, in relation to deceased persons who were members of the Oireachtas, for pensions for their widows and children, | ||
(ii) the Minister may, out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas, make such grants as he considers proper to the fund maintained pursuant to a scheme to which this section applies. | ||
(b) In subparagraph (i) of the foregoing paragraph ‘children’ includes a person for whose adoption there stood in force, at the time of the death of the relevant deceased person, an adoption order under the Adoption Act, 1952 , which specified that deceased person as the adopter or one of the adopters.” |