Courts, Civil Law, Criminal Law and Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2024
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Amendment of section 8 of Civil Service Regulation Act 1956 | ||
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28. Section 8 of the Civil Service Regulation Act 1956 is amended— | ||
(a) in subsection (1)(a), by the insertion of “or, where a higher age is specified by regulations under subsection (1A), that age” after “sixty years”, and | ||
(b) by the insertion of the following subsections after subsection (1): | ||
“(1A) The Minister for Justice may, with the consent of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform, make regulations relating to the retirement of officers to whom the Act of 1919 applies, including specifying a retirement age of such officers, being an age that is higher than 60 years and not exceeding the normal retirement age (within the meaning of section 13 (1) of the Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme and Other Provisions) Act 2012 ). | ||
(1B) Every regulation made by the Minister for Justice under subsection (1A) shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is made and, if a resolution annulling the regulation is passed by either such House within the next 21 days on which that House sits after the regulation is laid before it, the regulation shall be annulled accordingly, but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder.”. |