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ROYAL IRISH CONSTABULARY.
REVISED TERMS OF DISBANDMENT.
The following revised Terms of Disbandment embody the additions that have from time to time been made since the issue to the Royal Irish Constabulary on the 27th March 1922 of the Terms of Disbandment. A copy of these revised terms is being sent to every member of the Force.
REVISED TERMS OF DISBANDMENT. His Majesty's Government have decided that the following shall be the terms on which officers and men shall be disbanded :-
1. Compensation Allowance.
Every officer and man will be entitled to a compensation allowance calculated in accordance with the Rules in the Ninth Schedule to the Government of Ireland Act, 1920, applying to officers or men removed or required to retire; that is to say, he will be entitled to a pension calculated in accordance with the existing enactments relating to R.L.C. pensions, but the length of service on which the pension will be calculated will be not his actual length of service but his actual length of approved service with 12 years added thereto, and the salary on which the pension will be calculated will be not his actual salary but the salary which he would have been receiving had he continued to serve in the same rank for 12 years after the date of disbandment.
Provided that—
(1) No compensation allowance shall exceed two-thirds of the salary upon which it is calculated.
(2) Any member of the Force below the rank of District Inspector who joined prior to July 1st, 1919, shall be entitled if he so desires to calculate his pensions in fiftieths of his salary instead of in sixtieths, in which case he shall be entitled to add 10 years only to his actual service instead of 12 years.
(3) The salary upon which the compensation allowance of a District Inspector is calculated will be the amount which it would have reached at the end of the added years if, in the case of a D.I., Class III., he were entitled to promotion to the second class at the end of 1 years' service in the third class, and, in the case of a D.I., Class II., he were entitled to promotion to the first class at the end of eleven years' service in the second class.
(4) If any officer or constable dies after a compensation allowance has been awarded to him, the Treasury, if they think fit, may grant a pension or gratuities to his widow and children, as though the compensation allowance had been a pension awarded to him on retirement.
REVISED TERMS OF DISBANDMENT,
2. Disturbance Allowance.
If any officer or man, owing to molestation or danger or for any other cause whatsoever, moves his home either to another place in Ireland or to any place outside Ireland, he shall be entitled to be repaid the reasonable costs incurred in connection with such removal up to a maximum of one month's pay for unmarried men, two months' pay for married men with less than three children, and three months' pay for married men with three or more children.
These allowances will be payable on application at any time within 6 months of the date of disbandment.
In order to avoid any delay in the payment of these allowances, they will be payable on demand at the date of disbandment or at any time within 6 months thereafter; it must, however, be clearly understood that every officer or man who receives such an allowance will be required to produce to the Tribunal referred to in paragraph 7 below evidence that he has in fact moved his home; and if he has not moved his home or if the reasonable expenses incurred in connection with such removal are less than the amount of the allowance which he has received, the Tribunal may require him to refund the whole or part of the allowance, as the case may be.
In cases of officers and men holding acting rank above that of their substantive rank, Disturbance Allowance will be calcu lated upon the pay of the acting rank. In cases where officers or men holding acting rank have already been disbanded and have received Disturbance Allowance calculated upon their substantive pay, application may be made to the Deputy Inspector-General, Royal Irish Constabulary, Dublin Castle, for the payment of the difference between the sum received and the Disturbance Allowance that would have been payable if it had been calculated upon such acting rank.
3. Free Railway Warrant.
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Every officer and man will be entitled to a free railway warrant from the place of his disbandment to his home. addition to the above, it will be open to any member of the Force who considers that he would be in danger if he were to return or after having returned to remain at his home after disbandment, to apply for a free travelling warrant to enable him to remove himself and his family to any place in Great Britain or Ireland. Such warrants will be issuable in respect
of the member of the Force, his wife and children, or other dependent normally supported by him as a member of his household. Where a member of the Force is moving his family, and finds it inadvisable actually to accompany them, a separate warrant will be issued for their use. Travelling warrants will be issued on application prior to dispersal.
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