Ordnance Survey Ireland Act, 2001
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Superannuation of staff. |
17.—(1) OSI shall prepare and submit to the Minister a scheme or schemes for the granting of superannuation benefits to or in respect of members of staff as it may think fit. | |
(2) Every such scheme shall fix the time and conditions of retirement for all persons to or in respect of whom superannuation benefits are payable under the scheme or schemes and different times and conditions may be fixed in respect of different classes of persons. | ||
(3) Every such scheme may be amended or revoked by a subsequent scheme prepared, submitted and approved under this section. | ||
(4) A scheme submitted to the Minister under this section shall, if approved of by the Minister, be carried out by OSI in accordance with its terms. | ||
(5) If any dispute arises as to the claim of any person to, or the amount of, any superannuation benefit payable in pursuance of a scheme or schemes under this section, such dispute shall be submitted to the Minister, whose decision shall be final. | ||
(6) No superannuation benefits shall be granted by OSI nor shall any arrangements be entered into by OSI for the provision of such benefit to a member of the staff of OSI, otherwise than in accordance with a scheme under this section, or otherwise as may be approved of by the Minister. | ||
(7) A scheme under this section shall, as respects a member of staff referred to in section 15 (1), provide for the granting to or in respect of him or her of superannuation benefits upon and subject to terms and conditions that are not less favourable to him or her than the terms and conditions applied to him or her immediately before the establishment day in relation to the grant of such benefits. | ||
(8) Where, in the period beginning on the establishment day and ending immediately before the commencement of a scheme under this section, a superannuation benefit falls due for payment to or in respect of a person who was transferred to the staff of OSI under section 15 (1), the benefit shall be calculated by OSI in accordance with such scheme, or such enactments in relation to superannuation, as applied to the person immediately before the establishment day or such day as may be specified by the Minister pursuant to section 15 (1) and, for that purpose, his or her pensionable service with OSI shall be aggregated with his or her previous pensionable service and shall be paid by OSI. | ||
(9) A scheme under this section shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas by the Minister, as soon as may be after it is made and, if a resolution annulling the scheme is passed by either such House within the next 21 days on which that House has sat after the scheme is laid before it, the scheme shall be annulled accordingly, but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder. |