General Prisons (Ireland) Act, 1877

Conditions to be observed in granting superannuations.

34. In case any person enjoying any superannuation allowance or compensation upon the abolition of office under the authority of this Act shall be appointed to fill any office remunerated wholly or partly out of local rates, or any office in any public department, every such allowance or compensation shall cease to be paid for any period subsequent to such appointment, if the annual amount of the profits of the office to which he shall be appointed shall be equal to those of the office formerly held by him, and in case they shall not be equal to those of his former office, then no more of such superannuation allowance or compensation shall be paid to him than with the salary of his new appointment shall be equal to that of his former office.