A BILL ΤΟ Enable Corporate and other Public Bodies in Ireland to grant A.D. 1869. Superannuation Allowances to Officers in their Service in certain cases. WHE HEREAS it is expedient that provision should be made to Preamble. enable superannuation allowances to be granted to corporate and other local public officers in Ireland : Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with 5 the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: tenant, may 1. The various public bodies named in the schedule to this Act Public annexed may, at their discretion, with the consent of the Lord Lieu- bodies in Ireland, with 10 tenant or other Chief Governor of Ireland, grant to any officer in consent of their service who shall become incapable of discharging the duties Lord Lieuof his office with efficiency, by reason of permanent infirmity of grant supermind or body, or of old age, upon his resigning or otherwise annuation ceasing to hold his office, an annual allowance not exceeding in to their 15 any case two thirds of his then salary and emoluments, and officers. shall charge such allowance to the same fund as that to which such salary and emoluments would have been charged if he had continued in his office. allowances No officer under age of sixty to ance, nor 2. No officer shall be entitled to such allowance on the ground be entitled to 20 of age who shall not have completed the full age of sixty years, such allowand who shall not have served as an officer of the public body unless he hereby authorized to grant such allowances twenty years at the shall have least. a service of twenty years. 3. No grant shall be valid under this Act if made by a public Conditions 25 body meeting from time to time, unless it shall be sanctioned of grant. by two meetings of such body, the second meeting to be at an interval of not less than one month from the first, and unless at the second meeting the sanction of the Lord Lieutenant or other A.D. 1869. Chief Governor of Ireland, signified in writing by the Chief or Under Secretary of Ireland for the time being, to such proposed superannuation, shall be produced and laid before the same. The collec tor general of rates in Dublin and 4. The Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor of Ireland may, at his discretion, grant a superannuation allowance to the col- 5 lector general of rates in Dublin, and to the officers employed in his officers the office of the said collector general; but such superannuation may be superannuated. allowance shall in no case exceed the amount which public bodies are hereby authorized to grant to officers in their service, and shall be subject to the same restrictions as to mental and 10 bodily infirmity, age, and service as is herein-before provided with respect to grants by public bodies to officers in their service under this Act; and in case of the grant of any such superannuation allowance it shall be lawful for the collector general of rates in Dublin for the time being to add such superannuation allowance 15 to the expenses of the management of his office, and to charge the same in the same manner and on the same funds as he is now authorized by law to charge said expenses; and such superannuation allowance shall be a charge on said funds, in addition to any sum he is now by law entitled to charge on the same. The officers tor of county treasurers accounts may be su 20 5. The Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor of Ireland may, of the audi- at his discretion, grant a superannuation allowance to the officers employed in the office of the auditor of county treasurers accounts; but such superannuation allowance shall in no case exceed perannuated. the amount which public bodies are hereby authorized to grant to 25 officers in their service, and shall be subject to the same restrictions as to mental and bodily infirmity, age, and service as is hereinbefore provided with respect to grants by public bodies to officers in their service under this Act; and in case of the grant of any such superannuation allowance to any of the officers employed in 30 the office of the said auditor, it shall be lawful for the Lord Lieutenant or other chief governor of Ireland to charge same on the fee fund on which the salaries of such officers are charged. Superannuation allow 6. All allowances granted under this Act shall be payable to or ances not to in trust for such officer only, and shall not be assignable for nor 35 chargeable with his debts or other liabilities. be assign able. 7. Nothing herein contained shall affect the right of any officer of any of the public bodies in the schedule to this Act mentioned who may be entitled to any superannuation allowance under any other Act or Acts; but after the decease of any such officer his 40 successor shall cease to be entitled to any superannuation allowance under any former Act, and shall only be entitled to claim and be paid superannuation allowance under this Act. 8. In the construction of this Act the word "salary" shall A.D. 1869. include any remuneration an officer may be entitled to, including Construction poundage, per-centage, or other equivalent for wages or salary; of Act. and the words "public body" shall mean the public bodies named 5 in the schedule to this Act annexed. 9. This Act shall be called "The Local Officers Superannuation Title of this Act (Ireland), 1869." Act. SCHEDULE. 10 15 Names of public bodies authorized by this Act to grant superan- 1. The Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Bur- 2. The Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the several boroughs 3. The Town Commissioners acting under the 9 Geo. 4. c. 82., or 4. Any board or commissioners acting in any town or county in |