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S.I. No. 278/1954 - Garda Síochána Pay (No. 2) Order, 1954.

S.I. No. 278 of 1954.

GARDA SIOCHANA PAY (No. 2) ORDER, 1954.

WHEREAS it is enacted by subsection (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 of the officers and men of the Garda Síochána :

AND WHEREAS it is enacted by subsection (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 of the Garda 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 of the Garda 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, I, JAMES EVERETT, Minister for Justice, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 12 of the Police Forces Amalgamation Act, 1925 (No. 7 of 1925), and of every and any other power me in this behalf enabling, and with the sanction of the Minister for Finance, testified by his official seal affixed hereto, do hereby order as follows :—

1. This Order may be cited as the Garda Síochána Pay (No. 2) Order, 1954.

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

3. The Garda Síochána Pay Order, 1953 ( S.I. No. 235 of 1953 ), shall be deemed to have come into operation on the 1st day of November, 1952, and paragraph (2) of Article 1 of that Order is accordingly revoked.

4. The Surgeon in office on the making of this Order shall, while he continues to hold that office, be entitled to a personal salary of £1,500 per annum with effect from the 16th day of November, 1954.

5. Where a member of the Force is accountable to the State for moneys received by him as such member, the rate of pay applicable to him for the time being shall be subject to such reduction as will recoup the State for such moneys over such period as the Minister may appoint.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 17th day of December, 1954.

(Signed) JAMES EVERETT,

Minister for Justice.

I hereby sanction the foregoing Order.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 17th day of December, 1954.

(Signed) GERARD SWEETMAN,

Minister for Finance.