S.I. No. 60/1969 - Great Northern Railway Company (Ireland) Pension Fund For Wages Staff (Amendment) Scheme (Confirmation) Order, 1969.

1. Definitions

In this amending Scheme "the existing Scheme" means the Great Northern Railway Company (Ireland) Pension Fund for Wages Staff as amended by (a) the Great Northern Railway Company (Ireland) Pension Fund (Amendment) Scheme for Wages Staff (Confirmation) Order, 1962 (

S.I. No. 53 of 1962

) ; (b) the Great Northern Railway Company (Ireland) Pension Fund for Wages Staff (Amendment) Scheme (Confirmation) Order, 1965 (

S.I. No. 50 of 1965

) and (c) the Great Northern Railway Company (Ireland) Pension Fund for Wages Staff (Amendment) Scheme (Confirmation) Order, 1967 (

S.I. No. 9 of 1967

).

The term "operative date" means the date of the Order of the Minister for Transport and Power confirming this amending Scheme.

The terms "total payments" and "full pension" shall have the meanings assigned to them by the existing Scheme.

2. Continuance of the existing Scheme

(1) The benefits provided by the existing Scheme shall continue to be paid or be payable under and in accordance with the terms thereof and without alteration to every pensioner whose right to pension accrued prior to the operative date and to the personal representative of any deceased pensioner if the deceased's right to pension accrued prior to the operative date.

(2) Nothing in this amending Scheme shall affect the rights of any of the persons mentioned in the previous sub-article, nor shall this amending Scheme affect any subsisting right or liability accrued to or incurred by any person under the existing Scheme prior to the operative date.

(3) Deferred and special pensions, now payable or at any time to become payable shall not be affected by this amending Scheme.

3. Amendment of the existing Scheme

(1) Subject to the provisions of Article 2 of this amending Scheme, the existing. Scheme shall be amended so as to conform to the provisions hereinafter contained, and every provision of the existing Scheme which is inconsistent with the provisions hereinafter contained shall cease to have effect.

(2) The increased contributions and benefits provided for by this amending Scheme are, where applicable, in substitution for the corresponding contributions and benefits provided for by the existing Scheme.

4. Rate of Contribution

As from the operative date members shall contribute to this Scheme by payment into the Fund at the following rates :—

Basic Weekly Wage of Members

Members Weekly Contributions

s.

d.

Not exceeding £9 15s.

4

0

Exceeding £9 15s. but not exceeding £10 15s.

5

0

Exceeding £10 15s. but not exceeding £11 15s.

6

0

Exceeding £11 15s. but not exceeding £14 15s.

7

0

Exceeding £14 15s. but not exceeding £15 15s.

8

0

Exceeding £15 15s.

9

0

5. Full Pension

The full pension (including alternative full pensions) and the total payments set out in Table A hereunder shall be substituted for the like pensions and total payments set out in Table A of the existing Scheme in respect of any pension (other than a deferred or special pension) first becoming payable on or after the operative date.

TABLE A

Basic Weekly Wage

Weekly Pension

Total Payments

For Life

Alternative Rate

For 5 yrs. age 65 to 70

Thereafter for Life

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

£

s.

d.

£

s.

d.

£

s.

d.

£

Not exceeding £9 15s.

2

10

0

2

18

6

2

3

6

650

Exceeding £9 15s. and not exceeding £10 15s.

3

0

0

3

8

9

2

13

6

780

Exceeding £10 15s. and not exceeding £11 15s.

3

10

0

3

18

6

3

3

6

910

Exceeding £11 15s. and not exceeding £14 15s.

4

0

0

4

8

6

3

13

6

1,040

Exceeding £14 15s. not exceeding £15 15s.

4

10

0

4

18

6

4

3

6

1,170

Exceeding £15 15s.

5

0

0

5

8

6

4

13

6

1,300

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 14th day of April, 1969.

ERSKINE H. CHILDERS,

Minister for Transport and Power.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The purpose of the Order is to confirm a scheme to amend the existing Great Northern Railway Company (Ireland) Pension Fund for Wages Staff so as to provide for increased pensions for certain members of the scheme.

S.I. No. 60 of 1969.

GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY (IRELAND) PENSION FUND FOR WAGES STAFF (AMENDMENT) SCHEME (CONFIRMATION) ORDER, 1969.

WHEREAS by

section 15

(4) of the

Great Northern Railway Act, 1958

(No. 20 of 1958), the Great Northern Railway Company (Ireland) Pension Fund for Wages Staff was continued in being

AND WHEREAS Coras Iompair Eireann has, in pursuance of

section 15

(10) of the

Great Northern Railway Act, 1958

and the Transport, Fuel and Power (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order, 1959 (

S.I. No. 125 of 1959

), submitted to the Minister for Transport and Power a scheme (in these Recitals referred to as the amending scheme) amending the said Great Northern Railway Company (Ireland) Pension Fund for Wages Staff

AND WHEREAS the Minister for Transport and Power proposes to confirm the amending scheme

NOW I, ERSKINE H. CHILDERS, Minister for Transport and Power, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by

section 15

(10) of the

Great Northern Railway Act, 1958

(No. 20 of 1958), and the Transport, Fuel and Power (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order, 1959 (

S.I. No. 125 of 1959

), hereby, after consultation with the Minister for Finance, order as follows