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FINANCIAL EMERGENCY IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST ACT 2013[No. 18.] Financial Emergency Measures in the [2013.]Public Interest Act 2013.Reduction incertain publicservice pensions.5.—(1) In this section “public service pension” has the meaning ithas in the Act of 2010.(2) In subsection (3) “relevant pensioner” means a pensioner(within the meaning of the Act of 2010), the annual public servicepension of whom exceeds €32,500, and this reference to the pensioner’sannualpublicservicepensionisareferencetohisorherannual public service pension as it stands reduced by virtue of theoperation of the Act of 2010 before the passing of this Act.(3) With effect on and from 1 July 2013, subsection (1) of section2oftheActof2010isamended,inrelationtoarelevantpensioner,by substituting the following Table for the Table in that subsection:“TABLEAnnual Pensions that Exceed €32,500Annualised amount of publicservice pensionUp to €12,000Any amount over €12,000 butnot over €24,000Any amount over €24,000 butnot over €60,000Any amount over €60,000 butnot over €100,000Any amount over €100,000ReductionExempt8 per cent12 per cent17 per cent28 per cent33(4) Where the application to a pensioner of the amendmenteffected by subsection (3) would result in the annualised amount ofhis or her public service pension being reduced to less than €32,500,then the amendment effected by that subsection shall only operateto reduce the annualised amount of his or her public service pensionto €32,500.(5) The Act of 2010 is amended by inserting the following sectionafter section 2:”.“Personsbecomingpensionersafter 29February 2012:reduction inpublic servicepension.2A.—(1) For the purposes of this section—(a) the definition of ‘pensioner’ in section 1shall apply with the modification thatreferences to the relevant date in paragraphs(b) and (c) of the definitionshall be read as references to 31August 2014 or such other date as maybe specified in accordance with section9(1)(b)(ii) of the Financial EmergencyMeasures in the Public Interest Act2013;(b) ‘relevant (post 29 February 2012) pensioner’means, subject to subsection(2), a person who became a pensionerafter 29 February 2012, or becomessuch after the passing of the FinancialEmergency Measures in the Public8