National Institute For Higher Education, Dublin, Act, 1980
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Superannuation. |
11.—(1) As soon as may be after the passing of this Act, the Institute shall, subject to the provisions of section 10 (3) of this Act, prepare and submit to the Minister a scheme or schemes for the granting of pensions, gratuities and other allowances on retirement or death to or in respect of such of its staff (including the Director) as the Institute shall think fit. | |
(2) Every such scheme shall fix the time and conditions of retirement for all persons to or in respect of whom pensions, gratuities or allowances are payable under the scheme and different times and conditions may be fixed in respect of different classes of persons. | ||
(3) The Institute may at any time prepare and submit to the Minister a scheme amending a scheme previously submitted and approved of under this section. | ||
(4) A scheme or amending scheme submitted to the Minister under this section shall, if approved of by the Minister with the concurrence of the Minister for the Public Service, be carried out by the Institute in accordance with its terms. | ||
(5) If any dispute arises as to the claim of any person to, or the amount of, any pension, gratuity or allowance payable in pursuance of a scheme under this section, such dispute shall be submitted to the Minister for determination by him subject to the agreement of the Minister for the Public Service. | ||
(6) No pension, gratuity, allowance or other payment shall be granted by the Institute to or in respect of a member of its staff (including the Director) except under and in accordance with a scheme under this section, nor shall any agreement be entered into by the Institute without the approval of the Minister, given with the concurrence of the Minister for the Public Service, for the provision otherwise than by the Institute of a pension, gratuity, allowance or other payment on the resignation, retirement or death of a member of its staff. | ||
(7) The Minister shall cause every scheme submitted and approved of under this section to be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is approved of and if either House, within the next twenty-one 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. |