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S.I. No. 23/2016 - Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Payments to State Solicitors) (Adjustment) Regulations 2016.
Statutory Text (4 Articles)
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Payments to State Solicitors) (Adjustment) Regulations 2016.
2. These Regulations shall apply to payments made to a State Solicitor in respect of services rendered to or on behalf of the State under an agreement entered into with the Director of Public Prosecutions.
3. The payments made to a State Solicitor in respect of the services referred to in Regulation 2 shall, in respect of services rendered on and from the date of these Regulations, be varied in accordance with the rates specified in the Table to this Regulation.
TABLE
An increase of 1.75 per cent in the remuneration rates applicable on the day before these Regulations were made and payable to a State Solicitor under his or her agreement for legal services, entered into with the Director of Public Prosecutions, under the heading “Staff Cost Element” in the Schedule to that agreement.
GIVEN under my Official Seal,
1 January 2016.
BRENDAN HOWLIN,
Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform.
Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in
“Iris Oifigiúil” of
26
th January
, 2016.
I, BRENDAN HOWLIN, Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by
section 10
of the
Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act 2009
(No. 5 of 2009) (as adapted by the Finance (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order 2011 (
S.I. No. 418 of 2011
)), having carried out a review under subsection (13) of section 9 of that Act, in respect of regulations (namely the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Reduction in Payments to State Solicitors) (Adjustment) Regulations 2013 (
S.I. No. 231 of 2013
)) made under the said section 10, and considering it appropriate to adjust (pursuant to subsection (14) of the said section 9) the rates so provided, hereby make the following regulations