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# Constabulary and Police (Ireland) Act 1919

## Title and introductory text {#prelims}

Constabulary and Police (Ireland) Act 1919
1919 c.68
An Act to amend the Law relating to the Royal Irish Constabulary and Dublin Metropolitan Police.
[20th November 1919]

## 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . {#section-15}



## 6 Amendment of 5 & 6 Geo. 5 c. 32. {#section-6}

Subsection (2) of section one of the Irish Police (Naval and Military Service) Act 1915, shall have effect and shall be deemed always to have had effect as if for the words “pensions and allowances equal to one half the amount payble out of naval or military funds” there were substituted the words “pensions and allowances in addition to the amount payble out of naval, military, or air–force funds,” and as if it authorised pensions and allowances granted thereunder to be reckoned on the rate of pay which the man would have been receiving at the end of his death or disablement had he then been a member of the police force.

## 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . {#section-78.}



## 9 Interpretation and short title. {#section-9}

(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
The expression “pensions” includes gratuities; and
The expression “pensions and allowances of members” includes pensions and allowances of widows or children of members.
(2) This Act may be cited as the Constabulary and Police (Ireland) Act 1919.