Public Health (Tobacco) Act, 2002
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Superannuation. |
32.—(1) As soon as may be after its establishment, the Office shall prepare and submit to the Minister a scheme or schemes for the granting of superannuation benefits to or in respect of such of its staff (including the chief executive) as the Office shall 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, and different times and conditions may be fixed in respect of different classes of persons. | ||
(3) The Office may at any time prepare and submit to the Minister a scheme amending a scheme previously submitted and approved under this section. | ||
(4) A scheme or amending scheme submitted to the Minister under this section shall, if approved by the Minister with the consent of the Minister for Finance, be carried out by the Office 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 in pursuance of a scheme under this section, such dispute shall be submitted to the Minister who shall refer it to the Minister for Finance whose decision shall be final. | ||
(6) No superannuation benefit shall be granted by the Office to or in respect of any of its staff (including the chief executive) who are members of a scheme under this section, nor shall any other arrangement be entered into for the provision of any superannuation benefit to such persons on their ceasing to hold office, other than in accordance with such scheme or schemes submitted and approved under this section. | ||
(7) Where, in the period beginning on the commencement of section 9 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 the Office under section 31 , the benefit shall be calculated by the Office in accordance with such scheme, or such enactments in relation to superannuation, as applied to the person immediately before the commencement of the said section 9 or such day as may be specified by the Minister under section 31 (1) and, for that purpose, his or her pensionable service with the Office shall be aggregated with his or her previous pensionable service and shall be paid by the Office. | ||
(8) The Minister shall cause every scheme submitted and approved under this section to be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is approved, and if either such House within the next 21 days on which that House has sat after the scheme is laid before it, passes a resolution annulling the scheme, the scheme shall be annulled accordingly, but without prejudice to anything previously done thereunder. |