Arts Act 2003
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Superannuation. |
31.—(1) The Council may prepare and submit to the Minister a scheme or schemes for the granting of superannuation benefits to or in respect of such of the members of its staff (including the Director) as the Council shall think fit. | |
(2) Every such scheme 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. | ||
(3) The Council may at any time prepare and submit to the Minister a scheme amending a scheme previously submitted and approved under this section or a scheme to which subsection (5) applies. | ||
(4) A scheme or amending scheme submitted to the Minister under this section shall, if approved by the Minister with the consent of the Minister for Finance, be carried out by the Council in accordance with its terms. | ||
(5) Notwithstanding the repeal of the Act of 1951 (effected by section 4 ), any scheme for the granting of superannuation benefits to or in respect of any members of staff of the Council in operation immediately before the commencement of the said section 4 shall continue in operation after such commencement. | ||
(6) If any dispute arises as to the claim of any person to, or the amount of, any superannuation benefit in pursuance of a scheme under this section, such dispute shall be submitted to the Minister who shall refer it to the Minister for Finance whose decision shall be final. | ||
(7) No superannuation benefit shall be granted by the Council to or in respect of any of its staff (including the Director) who are members of a scheme under this section, nor shall any other arrangement be entered into for the provision of any superannuation benefit to such persons on their ceasing to hold office, other than in accordance with such scheme or schemes submitted and approved under this section. | ||
(8) The Minister shall cause every scheme submitted and approved under this section to be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is approved, and if either such House within the next 21 days on which that House sits after the scheme is laid before it, passes a resolution annulling the scheme, the scheme shall be annulled accordingly, but without prejudice to anything previously done thereunder. |