The 2018 Act contains a list of bodies to which the Principal Act does not apply. These are mostly commercial State bodies. Section 6 of the Act amends that Schedule to include two For completeness and in line with equivalent Schedules in the FEMPI Acts and the Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme and Other Provisions) Act 2012, Schedule 1 was \u00a0amended by the 2018 Act to include any corporate bodies that were established before the foundation of the Irish Free State.<\/p>\n
The 2018 Act text contains consequential amendments to various sectoral enactments which provide for a compulsory retirement age for an individual public servant or class of public servant. This is to align existing sectoral enactments with the key provision of this Act which is to increase the compulsory retirement age to 70 for most public servants recruited prior to 1 April 2004.<\/p>\n
The Schedule details the consequential amendments to various sectoral enactments which provide for a compulsory retirement age for a public servant or class of public servant. In each case, the amendments provide for a compulsory retirement age of 70, other than in the case of \u201cnew entrants\u201d as defined in the 2004 Act who have no requirement to retire on age grounds. The amendments also provide for a further increase in that compulsory retirement age in the event that the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform should provide for a higher compulsory retirement age by order in the future.<\/p>\n\n
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New\u00a0 Entrants The Public Service Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2004 made significant changes for new entrants to the public service after 1 April 2004. The minimum age for receiving a pension should generally be 65.\u00a0 There should be no compulsion for persons to retire at a particular age if they are fit and willing to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[380],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27683"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27683"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30448,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27683\/revisions\/30448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}