Number 24 of 1972

ELECTRICITY (SUPPLY) (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1972

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

Number 24 of 1972

ELECTRICITY (SUPPLY) (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1972

Definition.

1.—In this Act “the Act of 1942” means the Electricity Supply Board (Superannuation) Act, 1942.

Amendment of section 7 of Act of 1942.

2.—Section 7 of the Act of 1942 is hereby amended by the insertion after subsection (8) (inserted by the Electricity (Supply) (Amendment) Act, 1970) of the following subsection:

“(9) (a) In this subsection ‘previous service’, in relation to a person, means continuous service by the person in the employment of the Board up to the end of the last complete month of such service before the date of admission to the general employees superannuation scheme.

(b) Notwithstanding anything contained in the foregoing provisions of this section, a scheme (in this subsection referred to as an amending scheme) amending the general employees superannuation scheme may, with respect to any superannuation benefit, provide that if a person who was not in the service of the Board on the 1st day of April, 1943, becomes a contributing member, for the purposes of that benefit, before three months after the day on which the amending scheme is confirmed by the Minister, the Board shall make payments in respect of the previous service of the person to the fund set up for the purposes of the general employees superannuation scheme, and the person shall be entitled to reckon one half, but no more, of his previous service for that superannuation benefit.”

Supplementary allowances for certain general employees.

3.—The Board may, if they so think fit, grant and pay to a person—

(a) to whom subsection (9) (inserted by this Act) of section 7 of the Act of 1942 applies,

(b) who pays to the Board a contribution equal to 1 per cent of the remuneration paid to him by the Board during the three years immediately before his retirement from the employment of the Board, and

(c) who is in receipt of a pension under the general employees superannuation scheme (within the meaning of the Act of 1942),

a supplementary allowance for his life the annual amount of which together with the annual amount of the pension aforesaid is equal to—

(i) one half of the annual rate of the remuneration paid to the person by the Board immediately before his retirement from the employment of the Board, or

(ii) the annual amount of the pension which would have been payable to the person aforesaid if the whole of his continuous service in the employment of the Board had been reckoned therefor,

whichever is the less.

Removal of charges on Board property, and consequential repeals.

4.—Any charge on property of the Board which was created under the Electricity (Supply) Acts, 1927 to 1954, is hereby removed, and section 16 of the Electricity (Supply) Act, 1927, and section 15 of the Electricity (Supply) (Amendment) (No. 2) Act, 1934, and so much of section 40 of the Electricity (Supply) (Amendment) Act, 1945, and sections 4 and 6 of the Electricity (Supply) (Amendment) Act, 1954, as create, or authorise the creation of, a charge on property of the Board, are hereby repealed.

Short title, collective citation and construction.

5.—(1) This Act may be cited as the Electricity (Supply) (Amendment) Act, 1972.

(2) The Electricity (Supply) Acts, 1927 to 1971, and this Act may be cited together as the Electricity (Supply) Acts, 1927 to 1972, and shall be construed together as one Act.

Uimhir 24 de 1972

AN tACHT LEICTREACHAIS (SOLÁTHAR) (LEASÚ), 1972

[An tiontú oifigiúil]

[21 Samhain, 1972]

Míniú.

1942, Uimh. 17.

1.—San Acht seo ciallaíonn “Acht 1942” Acht Bhord Soláthair an Leictreachais (Aois-liúntas), 1942.

Leasú ar alt 7 d'Acht 1942.

1970, Uimh. 5.

2.—Leasaítear leis seo alt 7 d'Acht 1942 tríd an bhfo-alt seo a leanas a chur isteach i ndiaidh fho-alt (8) (a cuireadh isteach leis an Acht Leictreachais (Soláthar) (Leasú), 1970):

“(9) (a) San fho-alt seo ciallaíonn ‘seirbhís roimh ré’, maidir le duine, seirbhís leanúnach ag an duine i bhfostaíocht faoin mBord suas go dtí deireadh mí iomlán deiridh na seirbhíse sin roimh dháta a ligthe isteach i scéim aoisliúntais na bhfostaithe coiteanna.

 (b) D'ainneoin aon ní sna forálacha sin roimhe seo den alt seo, aon scéim (dá ngairtear scéim leasaitheach san fho-alt seo) do leasú scéim aoisliúntais na bhfostaithe coiteanna féadfaidh sí, maidir le haon sochar aoisliúntais, a shocrú go ndéanfaidh an Bord, má thagann duine nach raibh i seirbhís an Bhoird an 1ú lá d'Aibreán, 1943, chun bheith ina chomhalta ranníocach, chun críocha an tsochair sin. laistigh de thrí mhí tar éis an lae a dhaingneoidh an tAire an scéim leasaitheach, íocaíochtaí i leith seirbhís roimh ré an duine leis an gciste a bunaíodh chun críocha scéim aoisliúntais na bhfostaithe coiteanna, agus beidh an duine i dteideal leath, agus sin an méid, dá sheirbhís roimh ré a áireamh le haghaidh an tsochair aoisliúntais sin.”

Liúntais fhorlíontacha d'fhostaithe coiteanna áirithe.

3.—Féadfaidh an Bord, más oiriúnach leo, liúntas forlíontach ar feadh a shaoil a dheonú do dhuine agus a íoc le duine—

(a) lena mbaineann fo-alt (9) (a cuirtear isteach leis an Acht seo) d'alt 7 d'Acht 1942,

(b) a íocfaidh leis an mBord ranníoc ar cóimhéid le 1 faoin gcéad den luach saothair a d'íoc an Bord leis in imeacht na dtrí bliana díreach sular scoir sé d'fhostaíocht faoin mBord, agus

(c) atá ag fáil pinsin faoi scéim aoisliúntais na bhfostaithe coiteanna (de réir bhrí Acht 1942),

is liúntas forlíontach ar comhionann a mhéid iomlán i dteannta méid bliantúil an phinsin réamhráite agus—

(i) leath ráta bhliantúil an luach saothair a d'íoc an Bord leis an duine díreach sular scoir sé d'fhostaíocht faoin mBord, nó

(ii) méid bliantúil an phinsin ab iníoctha leis an duine réamhráite dá ndéanfaí iomlán a sheirbhíse leanúnaí i bhfostaíocht faoin mBord a áireamh chuige sin,

cibé acu is 1ú.

Muirir ar mhaoin an Bhoird a dhíchur agus aisghairm iarmhartach.

1927, Uimh. 27.

1934, Uimh. 38.

1945, Uimh. 12.

1954, Uimh. 17.

4.—Díchuirtear leis seo aon mhuirear ar mhaoin de chuid an Bhoird a bunaíodh faoi na hAchta Leictreachais (Soláthar), 1927 go 1954, agus aisghairtear leis seo alt 16 den Acht Leictreachais (Soláthar), 1927, agus alt 15 den Acht Leictreachais (Soláthar) (Leasú) (Uimh. 2), 1934, agus cibé méid d'alt 40 den Acht Leictreachais (Soláthar) (Leasú), 1945 agus d'ailt 4 agus 6 den Acht Leictreachais (Soláthar) (Leasú), 1954 a bhunaíonn muirear ar mhaoin de chuid an Bhoird nó a údaraíonn a bhunú.

Gearrtheideal, comhlua agus forléiriú.

5.—(1) Féadfar an tAcht Leictreachais (Soláthar) (Leasú), 1972, a ghairm den Acht seo.

(2) Féadfar na hAchtanna Leictreachais (Soláthar), 1927 go 1972, a ghairm de na hAchtanna Leictreachais (Soláthar), 1927 go 1971, agus den Acht seo le chéile agus forléireofar iad i dteannta a chéile mar aon Acht amháin.