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Repeals and provisions consequent thereon.
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26.—(1) Sections 1 to 16 and the First, Second and Third Schedules of the Irish Education Act, 1892 and section 2 of the Irish Education Act, 1893 are hereby repealed.
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(2) So much of the Irish Education Acts, 1892 and 1893 as is not repealed by this section or any previous enactment shall be construed and have effect as if the expression “The Minister for Education” were inserted therein in lieu of the expression “the Commissioners” wherever the latter expression occurs therein.
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(3) Immediately upon the commencement of this Act every school attendance committee appointed under the Irish Education Act, 1892 and existing at the commencement of this Act shall be deemed to be dissolved and, save as is otherwise provided by this Act, the moneys and other assets and the liabilities of every such committee shall by virtue of this Act be transferred to and vest in and be discharged by the council or body by which the expenses of such committee were defrayed under that Act.
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(4) Immediately upon the commencement of this Act the officers then existing of every school attendance committee appointed under the Irish Education Act, 1892 and existing at the commencement of this Act shall, save as is otherwise provided by this Act, be deemed to have been removed from their respective offices and shall be paid by the council or body by which the expenses of such committee were defrayed under that Act compensation in accordance with a scale to be fixed by the Minister for Local Government and Public Health after consultation with the Minister for Education but not exceeding in any case one-tenth of the annual salary of the officer for every completed year of his service, such salary being calculated at the rate of salary of which the officer was in receipt on the 1st day of November, 1925.
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(5) All expenses incurred by a council or body in the execution of this section shall be defrayed out of the like rate or fund as that out of which the expenses of the school attendance committee were defrayed by such council or body.
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