Institutes of Technology Act 2006
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Amendment of section 13 of DIT Act. |
40.— Section 13 of the DIT Act is amended by adding the following subsections after subsection (2): | |
“(3) (a) Sections 105, 106 and 107 of the Vocational Education Act 1930 and sections 7 and 8 of the Vocational Education (Amendment) Act 1944 shall apply to officers of the Institute who were appointed before the commencement of this subsection, with the substitution of references to the Institute for references to the vocational education committee. | ||
(b) Notwithstanding section 7(5) of the Vocational Education (Amendment) Act 1944 , whenever an officer of the Institute to whom paragraph (a) applies is suspended under this Act the Institute may, if the Governing Body thinks fit, make with the consent of the Minister payments ex gratia to the suspended officer in lieu of the remuneration which, but for that suspension, would have been payable to that officer. | ||
(c) Any sum paid under paragraph (b)— | ||
(i) shall be repayable by the officer to the Institute, | ||
(ii) may be deducted from any moneys payable by the Institute to that officer, and | ||
(iii) shall not be reckoned as salary or emolument for the purposes of the Education Sector Superannuation Scheme. | ||
(4) (a) The Institute shall not remove any of its officers to whom this subsection applies from office without the consent of the Minister. | ||
(b) This subsection applies to officers of the Institute appointed before the commencement of this subsection.”. |