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37 1933

PUBLIC SERVICES (TEMPORARY ECONOMIES) ACT, 1933

PART I.

Preliminary and general.

Short title.

1. —This Act may be cited as the Public Services (Temporary Economies) Act, 1933.

Definitions.

2. —In this Act—

the expression “the Minister” means the Minister for Finance; the expression “the current financial year” means the financial year beginning on the 1st day of April, 1933;

the word “rate” includes percentage;

references to employment shall be construed as including engagement and retainer;

the expression “national school” means a public elementary day school recognised by the Minister for Education as a national school;

the expression “preparatory college” means a preparatory college established by the Minister for Education.

Definition of “salary”.

3. —(1) In this Act (save as is otherwise expressly provided) the word “salary” includes all salary, pay, wages, commission, fees, and other remuneration, whether fixed or paid under statute, order, or regulation or otherwise howsoever, and whether calculated by reference to a period of time or by reference to work done, or on any other basis, and also includes allowances and benefits (whether paid in money or given otherwise than in money) forming part of the remuneration attached to an office, but does not include any payment made by way of allowance for or re-imbursement of specific expenses incurred nor any payment (whether separate or included in other remuneration) which is expressly made as an allowance (other than a uniform allowance or a plain-clothes allowance) for or towards necessary equipment.

(2) Where a person holds two or more offices from the salaries of which deductions are required by the same Part of this Act to be made, his salary for the purposes of such deductions shall be taken to be the aggregate amount of the respective salaries of those offices and such aggregate amount shall be subject to such deduction as would be appropriate thereto if the whole of such aggregate amount were—

(a) where one only of the said offices is a whole-time office, the salary of such whole-time office, or

(b) in any other case, the salary of that one of the said offices the salary of which is the greater or greatest.

(3) Where the Minister is satisfied that the amount of that salary of an office has been fixed on the basis that an undefined part thereof is of the nature of an allowance for expenses necessarily incurred in the performance of the duties of such office, the Minister shall determine for the purposes of this Act the proportion of such salary which is attributable to such allowance and thereupon the proportion so determined shall not be included in or form part of the salary of such office for the purposes of this Act.

(4) Where a person, who is in receipt of a salary from which a deduction is required by Part II of this Act to be made, earns and receives during the current financial year special remuneration (in addition to his normal salary) in respect of services rendered by him during that year or any part thereof, the annual rate of his salary for the purposes of this Act shall be taken to be the aggregate of the following amounts, that is to say:—

(a) the annual rate of his normal salary, and

(b) the total amount of such special remuneration earned and received by him in the current financial year.

(5) Where a person from whose salary a deduction is required by Part II of this Act to be made satisfies the Minister that he accepted an appointment in a civil capacity in the public service of Saorstát Eireann on an invitation made to him by or on behalf of the Government of Saorstát Eireann after the 6th day of December, 1922, and that for the purpose of accepting such appointment he relinquished an appointment in the public service of another country, then, and in any such case, if having regard to the terms on which such person accepted such first-mentioned appointment the Minister considers that it is fair and reasonable that the remuneration or some portion of the remuneration of such person should not be treated as salary for the purposes of this Act, the Minister shall determine that (as the case may be) no part or a specified part only of the remuneration of such person shall be deemed to be salary for the purposes of this Act.

Saving for pensions, etc.

4. —(1) Nothing in this Act shall affect the amount of salary by reference to which the amount of any compensation, superannuation allowance, pension, or gratuity is computed nor the amount of salary by reference to which contributions to a pension fund or under a superannuation scheme are computed, and accordingly deductions made under or by virtue of this Act shall not be taken into account in the computation of any such compensation, allowance, pension, gratuity, or contribution nor in the calculation of any average on which such computation is based.

(2) Where a person who has been granted a superannuation allowance or a pension is in receipt of a salary from which a deduction is made under this Act, the amount of such allowance or pension actually payable shall be computed by reference to the full amount of such salary, and such deduction shall not be taken into account for the purpose of such computation.

Preservation of contracts of service.

5. —The making under this Act of a deduction from salary paid under a contract of service shall not operate to terminate such contract, and such contract shall, notwithstanding the making of such deduction, continue to subsist but subject to the obligation or right to make and the obligation to suffer such deduction.