No. 69/1944:

COMMITTEES OF AGRICULTURE (SALARIES OF OFFICERS) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1944.

COMMITTEES OF AGRICULTURE (SALARIES OF OFFICERS) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1944.

I, SÉAMAS O RIAIN, Minister for Agriculture, in exercise of the powers conferred on - me by sub-section (1) of Section 27 of the Agriculture Act, 1931 (No. 8 of 1931), and of every and any other power me in this behalf enabling, do hereby make the following regulations, that is to say :—

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Committees of Agriculture (Salaries of Officers) (Amendment) Regulations, 1944.

(2) The Principal Regulations and these Regulations may be cited together as the Committees of Agriculture (Salaries of Officers) Regulations, 1936 and 1944.

2. In these Regulations the expression " the Principal Regulations " means the Committees of Agriculture (Salaries of Officers) Regulations, 1936 ( S. R. & O. No. 51 of 1936 ).

3. The Interpretation Act, 1937 (No. 38 of 1937), applies to these Regulations.

4. The Schedule to the Principal Regulations is hereby amended by the insertion in Part I of the following paragraph:—

"4A. (1) Subject to the provisions of sub-paragraph (2) of this paragraph, a committee shall, in addition to the actual salary and bonus (if any) payable by such committee, pay to each officer of such committee, the rate of whose total remuneration (exclusive of any allowance for cost of subsistence, hotel expenses and travelling) from such committee is less than five hundred pounds per annum and who does not hold a position of emolument under any other local authority—

(a) if such officer is married or is a widower or a widow, temporary (emergency) additional remuneration at the rate of, in case such officer is an officer of a clerical grade and the offices of such committee are not situate in a county borough, eight shillings per week or, in any other case, ten shillings per week,

(b) if such officer is not married or is not a widower or a widow, temporary (emergency) additional remuneration at the rate of, in case such officer is an officer of a clerical grade and the offices of such committee are not situate in a county borough, six shillings and six-pence per week or, in any other case, eight shillings per week.

(2) Temporary (emergency) additional remuneration payable under sub-paragraph (1) of this paragraph to an officer of a committee shall be limited to such amount as, when added to the total remuneration (exclusive of any allowance for cost of subsistence, hotel expenses and travelling) payable to such officer by such committee, will not exceed five hundred pounds per annum."

5. The Committees of Agriculture (Salaries of Officers) (Amendment) Regulations, 1943 (S. R. & O., No. 133 of 1943) are hereby revoked.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 4th day of March, 1944.

(Signed) SÉAMAS O RIAIN,

Minister for Agriculture.