Dublin Police Act 1867
| Year | 1867 |
Dublin Police Act, 1867
(30 & 31 Vict.) C A P. XCV.
An Act to amend the Laws regulating the Super annuation Allowances of theDublin Metropolitan Police.
[12th August 1867]
W HEREAS by an Act passed in the Tenth and Eleventh Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty (Chapter One hundred) Regulations were made for the granting of Superannuation Allowances to Members of theDublin Metropolitan Police:
And whereas it is expedient to alter and amend the said Regulations:
Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with 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:
1 So much of 10 & 11 Vict. c. 100. as relates to Deductions of Two per Cent. for Superannuations repealed.
1. From and after the passing of this Act, so much of the recited Act as provides for the Payment of a Contribution in aid of the Funds applicable to the Support of the saidDublin Metropolitan Police equal to Two Pounds per Centum per Annum on the Salary or Pay of the several Parties mentioned therein shall be and the same is hereby repealed: Provided always, that such Repeal shall not be held to destroy or in any Manner lessen the Rights of such Parties as shall have so contributed to the Benefit of the Scale of Superannuation by the said Act for them provided.
2 Power to the Lord Lieutenant to superannuate Officers and Constables.
2. It shall be lawful for the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors ofIreland , under the Conditions herein-after mentioned, to direct that any Superintendent Inspectors, Acting Inspector, Serjeant, Acting Serjeant, or Constable of the Dublin Metropolitan Police, appointed to the said Force after the passing of this Act, may be superannuated and receive a Gratuity or yearly Pension not exceeding the Proportion of his Salary stated in the Scale herein-after mentioned, that is to say,
1 Scale of Superannuation.
1. A Gratuity of One Month's Pay for each Year's Service after Five Years and less than Fifteen Years:
2. On Completion of Fifteen Years Service, an annual Pension of Fifteen Fiftieths of the Pay may be granted, and an Increase of One Fiftieth for each successive Year up to Thirty Years Service...
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