Public Service Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2004

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Number 7 of 2004


PUBLIC SERVICE SUPERANNUATION (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT 2004


ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

Section

1.

Interpretation.

2.

New entrant.

3.

Removal of compulsory retirement age for new entrants to public service.

4.

Compulsory retirement age for new entrants to Garda Síochána.

5.

Amendment of Superannuation (Prison Officers) Act 1919, etc.

6.

Compulsory retirement age and new entrant fire brigade employees.

7.

Compulsory retirement age and new entrants to Permanent Defence Force.

8.

Pension schemes, etc., and new entrants to Permanent Defence Force, etc.

9.

Non application to Chaplaincy Service.

10.

Pensionable age generally.

11.

Pensionable age for new entrants to Houses of Oireachtas, etc.

12.

Accrual rate for pension purposes.

13.

Reckoning for superannuation purposes of service after a specified age.

14.

Application to existing pension provisions.

15.

Removal of doubts.

16.

Short title and collective citation.

SCHEDULE 1

Bodies to which the definition of “Public Service Body” does not apply

SCHEDULE 2

PART 1

Consequential Amendments to Act Relating to Sections 2(7) and 11(2)

PART 2

Consequential Amendments to Acts Relating to Sections 3 and 10


Acts Referred to

Civil Service Regulation Act 1956

1956, No. 46

Companies Act 1963

1963, No. 33

Companies Acts 1963 to 2003

Comptroller and Auditor General (Amendment) Act 1993

1993, No. 8

Data Protection Act 1988

1988, No. 25

Defence Forces (Pensions) Acts 1932 to 1975

Dentists Act 1985

1985, No. 9

Environmental Protection Agency Act 1992

1992, No. 7

Fire Services Act 1981

1981, No. 30

Freedom of Information Act 1997

1997, No. 13

Harbours Act 1946

1946, No. 9

Harbours Act 1996

1996, No. 11

Health Act 1970

1970, No. 1

Health (Eastern Regional Health Authority) Act 1999

1999, No. 13

Local Government Act 2001

2001, No. 37

Medical Practitioners Act 1978

1978, No. 4

Mental Treatment Act 1945

1945, No. 19

Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices Act 1938

1938, No. 38

Ministerial, Parliamentary and Judicial Offices and Oireachtas Members (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2001

2001, No. 33

National Disability Authority Act 1999

1999, No. 14

Nurses Act 1985

1985, No. 18

Official Languages Act 2003

2003, No. 32

Oireachtas (Allowances to Members) and Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices (Amendment) Act 1973

1973, No. 22

Oireachtas (Allowances to Members) and Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices (Amendment) Act 1992

1992, No. 3

Oireachtas (Allowances to Members) and Ministerial, Parliamentary and Judicial Offices (Amendment) Act 1977

1977, No. 29

Oireachtas (Allowances to Members) and Ministerial, Parliamentary and Judicial Offices (Amendment) Act 1983

1983, No. 32

Ombudsman Act 1980

1980, No. 26

Ombudsman for Children Act 2002

2002, No. 22

Pensions Act 1990

1990, No. 25

Pensions (Amendment) Act 2002

2002, No. 18

Planning and Development Act 2000

2000, No. 30

Registration of Title Act 1964

1964, No. 16

Superannuation Act 1859

22 Vict., c. 26

Superannuation Act 1887

50 & 51 Vict., c. 67

Superannuation Act 1909

9 Edw. 7, c. 10

Superannuation Act 1914

4 & 5 Geo. 5, c. 86

Superannuation Acts 1834 to 1963

Superannuation (Prison Officers) Act 1919

9 & 10 Geo. 5, c. 67

Vocational Education Act 1930

1930, No. 29

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Number 7 of 2004


PUBLIC SERVICE SUPERANNUATION (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT 2004


AN ACT TO REMOVE THE COMPULSORY RETIREMENT AGE FOR CERTAIN CATEGORIES OF NEW ENTRANTS INTO THE PUBLIC SERVICE ON OR AFTER 1 APRIL 2004, TO INCREASE THE PENSIONABLE AGE FOR CERTAIN CATEGORIES OF NEW ENTRANTS INTO THE PUBLIC SERVICE FROM THAT DATE, INCLUDING MEMBERS OF EITHER HOUSE OF THE OIREACHTAS AND CERTAIN OFFICE HOLDERS, AND TO MAKE CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS, TO PROVIDE FOR CERTAIN OTHER CATEGORIES OF NEW ENTRANTS, FOR TRANSITIONAL MATTERS AND FOR THE MAKING OF A SCHEME OR SCHEMES FOR THE GRANTING OF SUPERANNUATION BENEFITS TO OR IN RESPECT OF NEW ENTRANTS INTO THE PERMANENT DEFENCE FORCE APPOINTED ON OR AFTER 1 APRIL 2004, AND TO PROVIDE FOR CONNECTED MATTERS. [25th March 2004]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS: