Oireachtas (Allowances To Members) (Amendment) Act, 1968
No. 8/1968: OIREACHTAS (ALLOWANCES TO MEMBERS) (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1968 |
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ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS |
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1 Amendment of section 6A of Oireachtas (Allowances to Members) Act, 1938. |
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AN ACT TO AMEND THE OIREACHTAS (ALLOWANCES TO MEMBERS) ACTS, 1938 TO 1964. |
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[26th March, 1968.] |
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS: |
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Amendment of section 6A of Oireachtas (Allowances to Members) Act, 1938 . |
1.—Section 6A of the Oireachtas (Allowances to Members) Act, 1938 (being the section inserted by section 5 of the Oireachtas (Allowances to Members) and Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices (Amendment) Act, 1960 ), as amended by section 30 of the Superannuation and Pensions Act, 1963 , is hereby further amended by the addition of the following subsection: |
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"(6) ( a ) Notwithstanding anything contained in the foregoing subsections of this section— |
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(i) an amendment under subsection (4) of this section may provide, in relation to deceased persons who were members of the Oireachtas, for pensions for their widows and children, |
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(ii) the Minister may, out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas, make such grants as he considers proper to the fund maintained pursuant to a scheme to which this section applies. |
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( b ) In subparagraph (i) Of the foregoing paragraph 'children' includes a person for whose adoption there stood in force, at the time of the death of the relevant deceased person, an adoption order under the Adoption Act, 1952 , which specified that deceased person as the adopter or one of the adopters." |
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Short title and collective citation. |
2.—(1) This Act may be cited as the Oireachtas (Allowances to Members) (Amendment) Act, 1968 . |
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(2) The Oireachtas (Allowances to Members) Acts, 1938 to 1964, and this Act may be cited together as the Oireachtas (Allowances to Members) Acts, 1938 to 1968. |
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