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Addition of years to pensionable local service of established officer.
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21.—(1) Where an established officer of a local authority has not less than ten years of pensionable local service and—
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(a) he is removed from his office for a cause other than misconduct or unfitness,
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(b) his office is abolished, or
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(c) his position has, in the opinion of the appropriate Minister, been materially altered to his detriment by changes in its conditions made without reasonable cause and he resigns his office with the consent of the appropriate Minister,
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the local authority shall add to his pensionable local service such number of additional years as may be sanctioned by the Minister, but not exceeding—
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(i) if his pensionable local service is twenty years or more—ten additional years,
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(ii) if his pensionable local service is an even number of years less than twenty—half that number of additional years, or
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(iii) if his pensionable local service is an odd number of years less than twenty—half the next lower whole number of additional years.
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(2) Where—
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(a) an established officer of a local authority who has not less than ten years of pensionable local service ceases to hold his office otherwise than by removal for his misconduct or unfitness for his office and in circumstances such that subsection (1) of this section does not apply, and
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(b) there are, in the opinion of the local authority, special reasons which justify the addition of years to his pensionable local service,
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the local authority, if they so think fit, may, with the consent of the Minister, add to his pensionable local service a number of additional years not exceeding ten.
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