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Payment of certain withheld remuneration.
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7.—(1) Any local authority may, within six months after the passing of this Act and with the sanction of the Minister, pay to any person or to the personal representative of any person who was an officer or servant of such local authority during the whole or any part of the period which began on the 1st day of July, 1922, and ended on the 30th day of April, 1923, and whose service as such officer or servant was interrupted during any part of that period by reason of his having being imprisoned or interned or otherwise absent from his duties during the said part of such period on account of his political activities, the whole or any part of any salary, wages, or remuneration in respect of the said part of such period payment of which was withheld from him by such local authority on account of his being so imprisoned or interned or otherwise absent from his duties.
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(2) The following provisions shall have effect in relation to or for the purposes of the foregoing sub-section of this section, that is to say:—
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(a) payment may be made to a person under this section whether he is or is not, at the time of making such payment, an officer or servant of the local authority making such payment;
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(b) if the local authority by whom payment of salary, wages, or remuneration was withheld has ceased to exist, any exercise of the powers conferred by this section which could have been made by such local authority if such local authority still existed may be made by the local authority to whom the functions, powers, and duties of such first-mentioned local authority have been transferred;
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(c) any payment made under this section to any person shall be defrayed out of the rate or fund out of which the salary, wages, or remuneration of such person are defrayed by the local authority making such payment or, if he is not an officer or servant of such local authority, out of the rate or fund out of which his salary, wages, or remuneration would be defrayed by such local authority if he were an officer or servant of such local authority;
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(d) every doubt, question, or dispute which shall arise in the carrying of this section into effect shall be determined by the Minister for Local Government and Public Health whose determination thereof shall be final.
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