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Right of constables to pensions. 3.(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, every constable of the Royal Irish Constabulary... who shall become a member of the force after the passing of this Act Paras.(a)(b) rep. by SLR 1976 (c)if he is incapacitated for the performance of his duty by infirmity of mind or body occasioned in the execution of his duty without his own default, shall be entitled to retire and to receive a pension for life;.... Para.(d) rep. by SLR 1976 (2) Provided that Para.(a) rep. by SLR 1976 (b)where a constable receives a pension under this section, before he has completed fifteen years service, the pension shall be subject to such reduction by the Inspector General as is provided by this Act. (3) The said pensions... shall be in accordance with the pension scale under this Act, and, subject to the limits in that scale, shall be such as the Inspector General, with the approval of the Treasury, may determine. (4) Provided that where a pension is granted to a constable on account of infirmity of mind or body, and such infirmity is certified by some legally qualified medical practitioner to have been brought about or been contributed to by his own default or by his vicious habits, and such constable is entitled under this Act to a pension of a fixed amount or to a pension not less than a fixed amount, the Inspector General may, subject to the limit in the pension scale, grant to him a less amount of pension than the said fixed amount of pension to which he would otherwise have been entitled. The pension scale under this Act shall be the scale set out in the Second Schedule to this Act. Subs.(5)(6) rep. by SLR 1976
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