Planning and Development Act 2024
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Superannuation of staff of Commission | ||
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528. (1) The Governing Board may prepare and submit to the Minister for his or her approval, a scheme for the granting of superannuation benefits, including pensions, gratuities and other allowances payable on retirement or death, to or in respect of members of the staff of the Commission, including the chief executive officer, as it considers appropriate. | ||
(2) The Governing Board may prepare and submit to the Minister a scheme amending or revoking a scheme under this section. | ||
(3) Where a scheme is submitted to the Minister pursuant to this section, the Minister may, with the consent of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform, approve the scheme without modification or with such modification (whether by way of addition, omission or variation) as the Minister shall, with such consent, think proper. | ||
(4) A scheme submitted to the Minister under this section shall, if approved by the Minister, with the consent of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform, be carried out by the Governing Board in accordance with its terms. | ||
(5) A scheme approved under this section 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. | ||
(6) 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 under this section, the dispute shall be submitted to the Minister who shall refer it to the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform, whose decision shall be final. | ||
(7) A scheme made under this section shall not provide for the granting of superannuation benefits to or in respect of any person where the Single Public Service Pension Scheme applies to or in respect of that person by virtue of Chapter 2 of Part 2 of the Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme and Other Provisions) Act 2012 . | ||
(8) Every scheme approved under this section shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is approved and if either 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 the validity of anything previously done thereunder. | ||
(9) A scheme under section 121 of the Act of 2000 in force immediately before the repeal of that section by section 6 shall continue in force and have effect on and after that repeal as if made under this section. |