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Social Welfare and Pensions (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2013 (No. 20)Introductory TextActs Referred toPart 1 Preliminary and General (s. 1)1. Short title, construction, collective citations and commencement.Part 2 Amendments to Social Welfare Acts (ss. 2-19)2. Definitions.3. Amendments consequent upon dissolution of An Foras Áiseanna Saothair.4. Definition of special contributor.5. Elections under Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 relating to charging, collection and recovery of self-employment contributions.6. Contributions by certain employed contributors.7. Civil partnerships and cohabitants.8. Entitlement to partial capacity benefit.9. Retained fire fighters.10. Transition from one-parent family payment to jobseeker's allowance in certain circumstances.11. Disqualification from receipt of benefit where identity not authenticated.12. Jobseeker's benefit refusal or failure to engage with activation measures.13. Jobseeker's allowance refusal or failure to engage with activation measures.14. Supplementary welfare allowance refusal or failure to engage with activation measures.15. Attachment insertion of Part 11A of Principal Act.16. Excepted employments.17. Amendment of Schedule 3 to Principal Act.18. Amendment of Schedule 5 to Principal Act.19. Miscellaneous amendments to Principal Act.Part 3 Amendments to Civil Registration Act 2004 (s. 20)20. Functions that may be performed by Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.Part 4 Amendments to Pensions Act 1990 (ss. 21-34)21. Definition.22. Amendment of section 2 of Principal Act.23. Amendment of section 3 of Principal Act.24. Amendment of section 3C of Principal Act.25. Amendment of section 3D of Principal Act.26. Change of name of Pensions Board and chief executive.27. Amendment of section 15 of Principal Act.28. Amendment of section 24 of Principal Act.29. Pensions Council.30. Amendment of section 50 of Principal Act.31. Direction by Board to trustees to wind up scheme.32. Application to High Court33. Amendment of section 129 of Principal Act.34. Amendment of First Schedule to Principal ActSchedule - Miscellaneous Amendments to Principal Act
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Version status: In force | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 7 March 2014 - onwards
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29. Pensions Council.

The Principal Act is amended by inserting the following section after section 26A:

"Pensions Council

26B.

(1) On the commencement of section 29 of the Social Welfare and Pensions (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2013 there shall stand established a body to be known, in the English language, as the Pensions Council or, in the Irish language, as An Chomhairle Pinsean to perform the functions assigned to it by this section.

(2) The functions of the Pensions Council shall be to advise the Minister, either on its own initiative or at the Minister’s request, on matters relating to pensions generally.

(3) The Pensions Council shall consist of the following members -

(a) a chairperson, and

(b) not fewer than 8, and not more than 12, ordinary members.

(4) The members of the Pensions Council shall be appointed by the Minister in accordance with this section.

(5) The Minister shall designate one member of the Pensions Council as chairperson.

(6) An ordinary member of the Pensions Council shall hold office for such period, not exceeding 5 years from the date of his or her appointment, as the Minister shall determine.

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