S.I. No. 15/1956:

GARDA SIOCHANA PAY ORDER, 1956.

GARDA SIOCHANA PAY ORDER, 1956.

I, JAMES EVERETT, Minister for Justice, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 12 of the Police Forces Amalgamation Act, 1925 (No. 7 of 1925), and with the sanction of the Minister for Finance, testified by his official Seal affixed hereto, do hereby order as follows :--

1.--(1) This Order may be cited as the Garda Síochána Pay Order, 1956.

(2) This Order shall be deemed to have come into operation on the 1st day of November, 1955.

2. The Interpretation Act, 1937 (No. 38 of 1937), applies to this Order.

3. In this Order--

the expression the Minister " means the Minister for Justice ;

the expression the Commissioner " means the Commissioner of the Garda Síochána ;

the expression " the Force " means the Garda Síochána.

4. Subject to the provisions of this Order the pay of members of the Force shall be in accordance with the following rates and scales :

5. The scale for Guards in Article 4 of this Order shall be subject to the following conditions :--

A Guard serving in the Detective Branch who has completed his period of probationary service, may, at the discretion of the Commissioner, be granted a special advance of two increments in the ordinary scale while he continues to serve in that Branch, provided that the grant of such special advance shall not increase his weekly pay beyond the maximum of the scale.

6. Superintendents serving in the Dublin Metropolitan Division shall be entitled to the following scale of pay in lieu of that set out in Article 4 of this Order :--

If a Superintendent is transferred from the Dublin Metropolitan Division, the Minister may, if the transfer is not by way of disciplinary punishment, authorise him to retain as a personal scale the scale to which he was entitled prior to such transfer.

7. The Surgeon in office at the commencement of this Order shall, while he continues to hold that office, be entitled to a personal salary of £1,610 per annum.

8. Every member of the Force serving as such at the commencement of this Order shall enter the scale of pay appropriate to him in accordance with this Order with benefit of increments appropriate to his period of service in his existing or in a higher rank, and his incremental date shall remain unchanged.

9. When a member of the Force has been reduced in rank, the period of his previous service in any higher rank may be reckoned for the purpose of increment of pay in the rank to which he has been reduced.

10. When a member of the Force (having completed his period, if any, of probationary service) resigns and is subsequently allowed to rejoin the Force, the Minister may, on the recommendation of the Commissioner, allow the previous service of such member to be reckoned either in whole or in part as he may think fit for the purposes of pay after rejoining.

11. When a member of the Force (having completed his period, if any, of probationary service) is dismissed and is subsequently reinstated in the Force, the Minister may, on the recommendation of the Commissioner, and subject to the sanction of the Minister for Finance, allow the previous service of such member to be reckoned either in whole or in part as he may think fit for the purposes of pay after reinstatement.

12.--(1) In this Article--

the expression " the 1920 Order " means the Dublin Metropolitan Police Pay Order, 1920 ;

the expression " the 1922 Order " means the Dublin Metropolitan Police Pensions Order, 1922.

(2) Any mention of or reference to the 1920 Order contained in the 1922 Order (except in Article 2 thereof) shall, in its application to any member of the Force to whom the 1922 Order applies, be construed and take effect as a mention of or reference to this Order, and the reference in Article 2 of the 1922 Order to paragraph 2 of Part III of the Schedule to the 1920 Order shall be construed as including a reference to paragraph (a) of Article 13 of this Order.

13. The pay prescribed in this Order shall be subject--

(a) in every case to a pension deduction at the rate of two and one half per cent. ;

(b) to deductions in respect of disciplinary fines, mess debts and public property lost, destroyed or damaged ;

(c) to such stoppages in respect of periods of illness, absence without leave, or suspension as may be prescribed by the Minister with the concurrence of the Minister for Finance.

14. Where a member of the Force is accountable to the State for moneys received by him as such member, the rate of pay applicable to him for the time being shall be subject to such reduction as will recoup the State for such moneys over such period as the Minister may appoint.

15. The Garda Síochána Pay Order, 1953 ( S.I. No. 235 of 1953 ), the Garda Síochána Pay Order, 1954 ( S.I. No. 182 of 1954 ) and the Garda Síochána Pay (No. 2) Order, 1954, shall cease to have effect subject to the following provisions :--

(a) Any authorisation granted or continued in force as if it were granted under Article 6 of the Garda Síochána Pay Order, 1953, shall continue in force as if it were granted under Article 6 of this Order ;

(b) Any provisions prescribed or continued in force as if they were prescribed under paragraph (c) of Article 13 of the Garda Siochana Pay Order, 1953, shall continue in force as if they were prescribed under paragraph (c) of Article 13 of this Order.

GIVEN under my Official Sea this 7th day of February, 1956.

(Signed) JAMES EVERETT,

Minister for Justice.

I hereby sanction the foregoing Order.

GIVEN under my Official Seal this 9th day of February, 1956.

(Signed) GERARD SWEETMAN,

Minister for Finance.