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Grant of civil service certificates to certain existing district court clerks and gratuities to certain existing district court clerks.
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3.—(1) This section applies to—
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(a) a person who, on the date of the passing of this Act, is employed during the whole of his time as a district court clerk and in respect of whose situation as a district court clerk a certificate of qualification has not been granted before that date,
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(b) a person who, on that date, is employed during part of his time as a district court clerk and who becomes employed during the whole of his time as a district court clerk.
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(2) (a) The Civil Service Commissioners may, on the recommendation of the Minister given with the concurrence of the Minister for Finance, grant to any person to whom this section applies a certificate of qualification in respect of his situation as a district court clerk.
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(b) A certificate of qualification granted under paragraph (a) of this subsection may, with the consent of the Minister for Finance, be expressed to take effect from a date prior to the date on which it is granted and, when a certificate of qualification is so expressed to take effect from a date prior to the date on which it is granted, the person to whom the certificate is granted shall be deemed to have been paid from moneys provided by the Oireachtas within the meaning of section 17 of the Superannuation Act, 1859, as from the date from which the certificate is expressed to take effect.
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(3) Where a person to whom this section applies has for any reason not been granted a certificate of qualification in respect of his situation as a district court clerk under subsection (2) of this section or otherwise before his discharge, the Minister for Finance may, out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas, grant to such person on his discharge a gratuity of such amount (not exceeding twice the amount of his salary and emoluments during the last year of his employment) as the Minister for Finance thinks proper.
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