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S.I. No. 213/1960 -- Committees of Agriculture (Salaries of Officers) Regulations, 1952 (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations, 1960.

S.I. No. 213/1960 -- Committees of Agriculture (Salaries of Officers) Regulations, 1952 (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations, 1960. 1960 213

S.I. No. 213/1960:

COMMITTEES OF AGRICULTURE (SALARIES OF OFFICERS) REGULATIONS, 1952 (AMENDMENT) (No. 2) REGULATIONS, 1960.

I, PATRICK SMITH, Minister for Agriculture, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by subsection (1) of section 27 of the Agriculture Act, 1931 (No. 8 of 1931), and section 6 of the Agriculture (Amendment) Act, 1958 (No. 17 of 1958), hereby make the following regulations:--

1. (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Committees of Agriculture (Salaries of Officers) Regulations, 1952 (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations, 1960.

(2) These Regulations shall be deemed to have come into operation on the 1st day of April, 1960.

(3) The collective citation "the Committees of Agriculture (Salaries of Officers) Regulations, 1952 to 1960" shall include these Regulations.

2. The Interpretation Act, 1937 (No. 38 of 1937), applies to these Regulations.

3. In these Regulations "the Principal Regulations" means the Committees of Agriculture (Salaries of Officers) Regulations, 1952 ( S.I. No. 317 of 1952 ).

4.--(1) The following subparagraph is hereby inserted in paragraph 3 of the Schedule to the Principal Regulations after subparagraph (2):

"(2A) The foregoing subparagraphs shall have effect where the said office is the office of Chief Agricultural Officer or Deputy Chief Agricultural Officer as if--

(a) the portion of subparagraph (1) authorising the fixing of the initial salary of the person appointed at an incremental points higher than the minimum salary under this Schedule for the said office contained a proviso that, without prejudice to subparagraph (2), such salary was not to be fixed at a point more than five increments above the minimum;

(b) the portion of subparagraph (1) authorising taking into account and having regard to a period or periods contained a proviso that, without prejudice to subparagraph (2),--

(i) in a case in which there was one period only, it was not to be taken into account or regarded unless it exceeded five years and, if it exceeded five years, only the excess might be taken into account and regarded, and

(ii) in a case in which there were two or more periods, they were not to be taken into account or regarded unless their aggregate exceeded five years and, if their aggregate exceeded five years, only the excess might be taken into account and regarded; and

(c) subparagraph (2) contained a proviso that the expression "salary of such person in respect of the previous office immediately prior to his appointment to the said office," as well as being construed as being exclusive of any allowance for cost of subsistence, hotel expenses and travelling, was to be construed as being also exclusive of any additional temporary remuneration in respect of the performance in a temporary capacity of the duties of a higher office."

(2) The following clause is hereby inserted in subparagraph (4) of paragraph 3 of the Schedule to the Principal Regulations after clause (d):

"(e) the office of Deputy Chief Agricultural Officer."

5.--(1) Paragraph 5 of the Schedule to the Principal Regulations, as amended by paragraph (2) of Regulation 3 of the Committees of Agriculture (Salaries of Officers) Regulations, 1952 (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations, 1958 ( S.I. No. 208 of 1958 ), is hereby amended by the substitution of "£1,140--£52--£1,660" for "£875--£27--£1,125."

(2) A person who was a Chief Agricultural Officer on the 1st day of April, 1960 shall enter on the scale prescribed by this Regalation at the point corresponding to the point applying to him on that day.

(3) For the purpose of the foregoing subparagraph--

(a) the scale of salary and point thereon by reference to which salary was in fact being paid to a person on the 1st day of April, 1960, shall be ascertained, and

(b) that point shall be taken to be the point applying to him on that day.

6.--(1) Part II of the Schedule to the Principal Regulations is hereby amended by the insertion of the following paragraph after paragraph 9:

Deputy Chief Agricultural Officer.

"10. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 4 of this Schedule, the scale of salary for Deputy Chief Agricultural Officers shall be £861--£49--£1,449--£41--£1,490."

(2) A person who was a Deputy Chief Agricultural Officer on the 1st day of April, 1960, shall enter on the scale prescribed by this Regulation at the point corresponding to the point applying to him on that day.

(3) For the purposes of the foregoing subparagraph--

(a) the scale of salary and point thereon by reference to which salary was in fact being paid to a person on the 1st day of April, 1960, shall be ascertained, and

(b) that point shall be taken to be the point applying to him on that day.

7. Regulation 3 of the Committees of Agriculture (Salaries of Officers) Regulations, 1952 (Amendment) Regulations, 1958 ( S.I. No. 140 of 1958 ), as amended by Regulation 4 of the Committees of Agriculture (Salaries of Officers) Regulations, 1952 (Amendment) Regulations, 1960 ( S.I. No. 45 of 1960 ), shall not apply to a salary payable to a Chief Agricultural Officer or a Deputy Chief Agricultural Officer.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 20th day of October, 1960.

PATRICK SMITH,

Minister for Agriculture.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

These Regulations prescribe new consolidated scales of salary for Chief Agricultural Officers and Deputy Chief Agricultural Officers of Committees of Agriculture.