S.I. No. 405/2024 - Civil Service Regulation Act 1956 (Retirement of Prison Officers) Regulations 2024

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Civil Service Regulation Act 1956 (Retirement of Prison Officers) Regulations 2024.

2. These Regulations shall come into operation on 19 August 2024.

3. An officer to whom the Act of 1919 applies shall retire on attaining the age of sixty-two years.

The Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform consents to the making of the foregoing Regulations.

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

8 August, 2024.

PASCHAL DONOHOE,

Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform.

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

8 August, 2024.

HELEN MCENTEE,

Minister for Justice.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

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This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation.

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These Regulations specify a maximum retirement age of sixty-two years for prison officers with effect from 19 August 2024.

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of

16

th August,

2024.

I, HELEN MCENTEE, Minister for Justice, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by subsection (1A) of section 8 (as amended by

section 28

of the

Courts, Civil Law, Criminal Law and Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2024

(No. 30 of 2024)) of the

Civil Service Regulation Act 1956

(No. 46 of 1956), with the consent of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform, hereby make the following regulations