S.I. No. 286/1985 - Córas Iompair Éireann, Salaried Officers' and Clerks' (G.S.R.) Superannuation Scheme (Amendment) Scheme (Confirmation) Order, 1985.

1. In this amending Scheme the following words and expressions shall have the meanings hereby assigned to them unless there is something inconsistent in the subject matter or the context repugnant to such construction

"The existing Scheme" means the Córas Iompair Éireann, Salaried Officers' and Clerks' (G.S.R.) Superannuation Scheme as scheduled to the

Great Southern Railways Company (Superannuation Scheme) Act, 1947

(No. 21 of 1947) as subsequently amended by the amending Schemes confirmed by Statutory Instruments numbered 220 of 1963, 76 of 1971, 253 of 1974, 46 of 1977, 127 of 1981, 246 of 1982 and 346 of 1982.

Amendment of the Existing Scheme

2. The existing Scheme shall be amended with effect on and from the operative date 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.

3. Sub-paragraph (

a

) (ii) of paragraph (4) of Rule 14 of the existing Scheme shall be amended by the deletion of the words "the first of March, 1985" and the substitution of the "seventeenth day of January, 1987" in lieu thereof.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 22nd day of August, 1985.

JIM MITCHELL,

Minister for Communications

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The purpose of the scheme is to provide for the reduction, under certain conditions, of the retiring ages prescribed in the existing scheme, to allow for voluntary early retirement on redundancy.

I, JIM MITCHELL, Minister for Communications, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by

section 44

of the

Transport Act, 1950

(No. 12 of 1950), and the

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Act, 1983

(No. 40 of 1983), hereby, after consultation with the Minister for the Public Service, order as follows