S.I. No. 56/1958 - Vocational Education Committees (Age Limit For Officers) Declaration, 1958.

1. This Declaration may be cited as the Vocational Education Committees (Age Limit for Officers) Declaration, 1958.

2. The age of sixty-five years shall be the age limit for all offices under a vocational education committee.

3. The Vocational Education Committees (Age Limit for Officers) Order, 1947 (

S. R. & O. No. 37 of 1947

), is hereby revoked with effect as from the coming into force of this Declaration.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 26th day of February, 1958.

SEÁN Ó LOINSIGH.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The Declaration fixes the age of sixty-five years as the age limit for all offices under a vocational education committee.

In accordance with

section 24

(2) of the

Local Government Act, 1955

, the Declaration affects only an officer who on retirement is entitled to a pension ; in the case of an officer who is not entitled to a pension until after he has reached the age of sixty-five, it does not become effective until he is so entitled.

Under

section 6

of the

Vocational Education (Amendment) Act, 1944

, the Declaration comes into force six months after it is made. The existing age limit order for offices under a vocational education committee is then revoked.

S.I. No. 56 of 1958.

VOCATIONAL EDUCATION COMMITTEES (AGE LIMIT FOR OFFICERS) DECLARATION, 1958.

I, SEÁN Ó LOINSIGH, Minister for Education, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by

sections 6

and

11

of the

Vocational Education (Amendment) Act, 1944

(No. 9 of 1944), and

section 24

of the

Local Government Act, 1955

(No. 9 of 1955), hereby declare as follows :—