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38 1959

STAFF OF THE HOUSES OF THE 01 RE AC HTAS ACT, 1959

PART III.

Application of Commissioners Act to members of the joint staff of the Houses of the Oireachtas and amendments of that Act.

Application of Commissioners Act to members of the joint staff of the Houses of the Oireachtas.

11. —The provisions of the Commissioners Act shall, as amended by this Act, apply to members of the joint staff of the Houses of the Oireachtas, with and subject to the modification that, in subsection (1) of section 27 of the Commissioners Act, “Chairman of Dáil Éireann” shall be substituted for “Minister of State by whom the appointment is made”.

Amendment of section 2 (1) of the Commissioners Act.

12. —(1) So much of subsection (1) (as originally enacted) of section 2 of the Commissioners Act as defines “member of the staff of the Houses of the Oireachtas”, “officer of the Houses of the Oireachtas” and “position” is hereby repealed.

(2) There shall be inserted in subsection (1) of section 2 of the Commissioners Act the following three new definitions—

‘“member of the joint staff of the Houses of the Oireachtas” does not include an officer of the Houses of the Oireachtas;

officer of the Houses of the Oireachtas” means a person being—

(a) the Clerk or Clerk-Assistant of Dáil Éireann or Seanad Éireann, or

(b) the Superintendent, Houses of the Oireachtas, or

(c) the Captain of the Guard, Houses of the Oireachtas;

position” means a position in the Civil Service'.

Amendment of section 3 of the Commissioners Act.

13. —(1) In subsection (1) of section 3 of the Commissioners Act, there shall be substituted for paragraph (a), the following new paragraph—

“(a) in relation to the position of a member of the joint staff of the Houses of the Oireachtas—the Chairman of Dáil Éireann”.

(2) In the Table to subsection (2) of section 3 of the Commissioners Act, the entries at reference number 1 shall be repealed.

Repeal of section 6 (1) of the Commissioners Act.

14. —Subsection (1) of section 6 of the Commissioners Act is hereby repealed.

Adaptation of references in Commissioners Act to the Regulation Act.

15. —References in the Commissioners Act to the Regulation Act shall be construed as references to the Regulation Act as applied and amended by Part IV of this Act.