S.I. No. 90/1944 - Gárda Síochána Pay Order, 1944.

WHEREAS it is enacted by sub-section (1) of section 12 of the Police Forces Amalgamation Act, 1925 (No. 7 of 1925), that the Minister for Justice may with the sanction of the Minister for Finance from time to time by order regulate and appoint the rates of pay and allowances (including conditions applicable thereto) to be paid to the several ranks and to the several grades of each rank of the officers and men of the Gárda Síochána.

AND WHEREAS it is enacted by sub-section (2) of the said section 12 that before making an order under that section the Minister for Justice shall cause the draft of the Order to be submitted to the several representative bodies representing the several ranks and grades of the Gárda Síochána who would be affected by the Order when made and shall consider any representations made to him in respect of the draft Order by any such representative body:

AND WHEREAS before making this Order the Minister for Justice duly caused the draft thereof to be submitted to the several representative bodies representing the several ranks and grades of the Gárda Síochána who would be affected by this Order when made, and has considered the representations made to him in respect of the said draft Order by such representative bodies:

NOW, the Minister for Justice, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 12 of the Police Forces Amalgamation Act, 1925 (No. 7 of 1925), and of every and any other power him in this behalf enabling, and with the sanction of the Minister for Finance, testified by his official seal affixed hereto, hereby orders as follows:—

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Gárda Síochána Pay Order, 1944.

(2) The Principal Order and this Order may be cited together as the Gárda Síochána Pay Orders, 1943 and 1944.

(3) The Principal Order and this Order shall be construed together as one Order.

2. The Interpretation Act, 1937 (No. 38 of 1937), applies to this Order.

3. In this Order, the expression " the Principal Order " means the Gárda Síochána Pay Order, 1943 ( S. R. & O. No. 111 of 1943 .)

4. Article 14 of the Principal Order is hereby amended, with effect as on and from the 1st day of January, 1944, by the substitution for paragraph (1) thereof of the following paragraph:

" (1) A member of the Force, the annual amount of whose pay is less than £500, shall, in addition thereto, be entitled to receive pay (to be known and in this Order referred to as the emergency bonus) at the rate of 10s. per week, subject to the limitation that the said annual amount together with the emergency bonus (expressed as an annual amount) shall not exceed £500 ".

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Justice this 16th day of March, 1944.

(Signed) GERALD BOLAND.

The Minister for Finance hereby sanctions the foregoing Order.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Finance, this 25th day of March, 1944.

(Signed) J. J. McELLIGOTT.