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45 1956

CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSIONERS ACT, 1956

PART IV.

Miscellaneous Provisions.

Application of section 12 of the Superannuation Act, 1834, to person promoted in acting capacity where promotion not in the customary course.

28. —Where—

(a) a person serving in an established position is promoted in an acting capacity to another position, and

(b) the promotion is otherwise than in the customary course of promotion, as that course has been determined by the Commissioners, and

(c) he is, while serving in such acting capacity, appointed substantively to that other position and a certificate of qualification has been issued by the Commissioners in respect of that other position,

section 12 of the Superannuation Act, 1834, shall apply to him as if he had been appointed substantively to that other position from the date of his promotion in an acting capacity.

Commissioners to hold certain other competitions, etc.

29. —(1) The Commissioners shall hold—

(a) all competitions, examinations, interviews and tests which are for the time being required by law to be held by the Commissioners,

(b) such other competitions, examinations, interviews and tests as the Government or the Minister may from time to time direct.

(2) The Commissioners, with the consent of the Minister, may make regulations in relation to any competition, examination, interview or test held by them under this section, and may by such regulations fix the fee to be paid for admission to any such competition, examination, interview or test.

Rules governing conduct of candidates at competitions, etc.

30. —(1) The Commissioners may make rules governing the conduct of candidates at competitions, examinations, interviews or tests held by them under this Act and providing for other matters in relation to the holding of such competitions, examinations, interviews or tests.

(2) The Commissioners may, in rules made under this section, provide for the disqualification or penalisation, at the discretion of the Commissioners, of candidates who fail to observe the rules under this section governing the conduct of candidates.

Personation of candidate at competitions, examinations, etc.

31. —If any person personates a candidate at a competition, examination, interview or test held by the Commissioners under this Act, or at any medical examination held under this Act, that person shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds or, at the discretion of the Court, to imprisonment for any term not exceeding three months or to both such fine and imprisonment.

Provisions in relation to orders, regulations and rules.

32. —(1) Orders, regulations and rules made by the Commissioners under this Act shall, for the purposes of the Statutory Instruments Acts, 1947 and 1955, be deemed not to be statutory instruments to which those Acts primarily apply.

(2) Whenever the Commissioners make regulations under this Act—

(a) notice of the making thereof shall be published in the Iris Oifigiúil, and

(b) the notice shall state when and where copies of the regulations may be obtained.

Disposal of fees.

33. —(1) The following provisions shall apply to fees payable by candidates under this Act—

(a) the fees shall be collected and taken in such manner as the Minister may from time to time direct, and shall be paid into or disposed of for the benefit of the Exchequer in accordance with the directions of the Minister,

(b) the Public Offices Fees Act, 1879, shall not apply in respect of the fees.

(2) Paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of this section does not apply to fees in respect of medical examinations which are payable by candidates direct to doctors carrying out those examinations.