Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Payments to State Solicitors) (Adjustment) Regulations S.I. No. 128/2017


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S.I. No. 128/2017 - Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Payments to State Solicitors) (Adjustment) Regulations 2017.


Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of 4th April, 2017.

I, PASCHAL DONOHOE, 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) and 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:

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Payments to State Solicitors) (Adjustment) Regulations 2017.

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—

(a)1 April 2017, be varied in accordance with the rates specified in Part 1 of the Table to this Regulation, and

(b)1 January 2018, be varied in accordance with the rates specified in Part 2 of the Table to this Regulation.

TABLE

Part 1

An increase of one half of the amount of the reduction incurred under the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act 2013 (No. 18 of 2013) in the remuneration rates applicable on 31 March 2017 payable to a State Solicitor under his or her agreement for legal services, entered into with the Director of Public Prosecutions, under the heading “Personal Element” in the Schedule to that agreement.

Part 2

An increase of one half of the amount of the reduction incurred under the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act 2013 in the remuneration rates applicable on 31 December 2017 payable to a State Solicitor under his or her agreement for legal services, entered into with the Director of Public Prosecutions, under the heading “Personal Element” in the Schedule to that agreement.

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GIVEN under my Official Seal,

30 March 2017.

PASCHAL DONOHOE,

Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform.


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