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Superannuation of officers and servants.
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24.—(1) As soon as conveniently may be after the vesting day, the Corporation shall prepare and submit to the Minister for his approval a contributory scheme or schemes for the granting of pensions, gratuities and other allowances on retirement or death to or in respect of such officers or servants of the Corporation as it may think fit.
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(2) The Corporation may, at any time, prepare and submit to the Minister a scheme amending or revoking a scheme under this section.
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(3) Where a scheme is submitted to the Minister pursuant to this section, the Minister may, with the concurrence of the Minister for the Public Service, approve the scheme.
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(4) A scheme submitted to the Minister under this section shall, if approved of by the Minister with the concurrence of the Minister for the Public Service, be carried out by the Corporation in accordance with its terms.
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(5) A scheme submitted and approved of under this section shall fix the time and conditions of retirement for all persons to or in respect of whom pensions, gratuities, or allowances on retirement or death are payable under the scheme, and different times and conditions may be fixed in respect of different classes of persons.
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(6) If any dispute arises as to the claim of any person to, or the amount of, any pension, gratuity or allowance payable pursuant to a scheme under this section, such dispute shall be submitted to the Minister who shall refer it to the Minister for the Public Service, whose decision shall be final.
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(7) No pension, gratuity or other allowance shall be granted by the Corporation on the resignation, retirement or death of an officer or servant of the Corporation otherwise than in accordance with a scheme under this section.
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(8) Every scheme submitted and approved of under this section shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is approved of and if either House, within the next twenty-one days on which that House has sat after the scheme is laid before it, passes a resolution annulling the scheme, the scheme shall be annulled accordingly but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder.
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