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FINANCIAL EMERGENCY IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST ACT 2013[No. 18.] Financial Emergency Measures in the [2013.]Public Interest Act 2013.AND WHEREAS the State is availing itself of a financial assistanceprogramme established by the European Union and the InternationalMonetary Fund with funding provided by the European FinancialStabilisation Mechanism, the European Financial StabilityFacility, the bilateral lenders (the United Kingdom, the Kingdom ofSweden and the Kingdom of Denmark) and the International MonetaryFund and it is necessary to adopt a range of measures to meetcommitments included in that programme to address the economiccrisis in the State;AND WHEREAS it is necessary for the State to take measuresas part of remedial action to maintain the State’s pathtowardcorrectingthe excessive deficit by 2015 in line with the recommendationto that effect of the Council of the European Union (Council Recommendationwith a view to bringing to an end the situation of anexcessive deficit in Ireland of 7 December 2010);BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS ASFOLLOWS:Interpretation.1.—(1) In this Act—“Act of 2009” means the Financial Emergency Measures in thePublic Interest (No. 2) Act 2009;“Act of 2010” means the Financial Emergency Measures in thePublic Interest Act 2010;29“Act of 2011” means the Financial Emergency Measures in thePublic Interest (Amendment) Act 2011;“Act of 2012” means the Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme andOther Provisions) Act 2012;“Minister” means the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform.(2) References in this Act—(a) to an increment that may be awarded to a public servantare references to an increment, provided for in the applicablepay scale, that may be awarded to the public servantsubject to there being satisfied the one or more conditionsthat are required by the pay scale, or a writtenstatement governing its operation, to be satisfied beforean award of such an increment may be made, and(b) to a point on a pay scale shall be read accordingly.Reduction inremuneration ofpublic servants whoearn more than€65,000.2.—The Act of 2009 is amended by inserting the following sectionsafter section 2:“Publicservants’remuneration:reduction, witheffect from 1July 2013, forcertain publicservants.2A.—(1) In this section—(a) a reference to a relevant provision shall,other than in the case of a public servantto whom section 10(2) of the FinancialEmergency Measures in thePublic Interest Act 2013 relates, beread as a reference to that provision asit has effect, subject to any direction4