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Superannuation of transferred staff.
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66.—(1) A member of the transferred staff shall not, while in the service of the Authority, be subject to less favourable conditions in relation to the grant of superannuation allowances (whether by way of lump sum, pension, gratuity or compensation for loss of office) than the conditions which applied to him immediately before his transfer to the service of the Authority.
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(2) (a) Every member of the transferred staff who, immediately before the commencement of section 65, was in the service of a committee of agriculture and was required to make contributions to the committee for the purpose of the Act of 1956 shall, until a superannuation scheme applicable to him and approved by the Minister under section 35 comes into operation, pay to the Authority the appropriate contributions under sections 23 and 43 of the Act of 1956, as he would have been liable to pay if he had continued to be an officer or servant of such committee.
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(b) The arrangements for the payment to the Authority of contributions under this section shall be as required by sections 23 (2) and 43 (2) of the Act of 1956 and for the purpose of this section “the Authority” shall be substituted for “a local authority” in the said sections 23 (2) and 43 (2).
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(c) Section 24 (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (which relates to the return by a local authority of contributions to pensionable officers) and section 44 (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (which relates to the return of such contributions to pensionable servants) of the Act of 1956 shall have effect in relation to contributions paid to the Authority under this section as if the liabilities imposed on a local authority by those sections were liabilities of the Authority.
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(d) Where contributions are, by virtue of paragraph (c), returned to a member of the transferred staff who, prior to his transfer to the Authority had made contributions for superannuation to a local authority or any other body under section 24 (1) or 44 (1) of the Act of 1956, the Authority shall also return to him or, as the case may be, to his legal personal representative, the total amount of such contributions, and the local authority and the other body (if any) concerned shall recoup to the Authority such sum as may be held by them in respect of the contributions made by the member.
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(e) Contributions returned to a member of the transferred staff under paragraphs (c) and (d) may be repaid to the Authority in accordance with such directions and subject to such conditions as the Minister, with the concurrence of the Minister for the Public Service, may specify.
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(3) Where an allowance to which subsection (1) relates falls due for payment to or in respect of a member of the transferred staff in the period between the commencement of section 65 and the coming into operation of a scheme approved by the Minister under section 35, the allowance shall be calculated and paid by the Authority in accordance with such superannuation scheme, or such enactments in relation to superannuation, as applied to such member immediately before his transfer to the service of the Authority and, for that purpose, his pensionable service with the Authority shall be aggregated with his previous pensionable service.
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