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Existing Majors to be Lieutenant-Colonels and consequential provisions.
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4.—(1) Every officer who on the date of the passing of this Act holds the commissioned rank of Major shall, on the said date, be and become a Lieutenant-Colonel.
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(2) References in any Saorstát Éireann statute or any Act of the Oireachtas or in any regulations made thereunder or in any Scheme made under the Defence Forces (Pensions) Acts, 1932 and 1938, to the rank of Major shall, on and after the passing of this Act, be construed as references to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel.
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(3) Service in the rank of Major shall, for the purposes of the Acts and any regulations made thereunder and for the purposes of any Scheme made under the Defence Forces (Pensions) Acts, 1932 and 1938, be regarded as service in the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel.
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