Hospitals' Trust (1940) Limited (Payments To Former Employees) Act, 2000
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Reference of applications for payment of lump sum to Committee. |
6.—(1) Every application for the grant of a lump sum under section 2 shall be referred by the Minister to the Committee. | |
(2) The Committee shall investigate an application referred to it for the purpose of ascertaining, as appropriate— | ||
(a) whether the applicant is a former employee or the personal representative of a former employee or, as the case may be, whether the application relates to a person who is a former employee, | ||
(b) in case the application purports to be made on behalf of a former employee by a person who is not the personal representative of the employee, the nature and extent of that person's authority to act on behalf of the former employee. | ||
and shall, as soon as may be, prepare a report in writing on the result of the investigation and shall transmit the report to the Minister. | ||
(3) The Committee shall furnish to the Minister such information as he or she may from time to time require regarding its activities. | ||
(4) The Committee may, for the purposes of an investigation under this section, require an applicant to answer a question, furnish information or produce a document or thing relevant to the investigation of the application concerned. |