1.— In this Act—

“Civil Service” means the Civil Service of the Government and the Civil Service of the State;

“Minister” means the Minister for Finance;

“public servant” F1[, subject to section 2A (inserted by the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act 2013),] means—

(a) a person who is employed by, or who holds any office or other position in, a public service body,

(b) a member of either House of the Oireachtas or of a local authority (within the meaning of the Local Government Act 2001),

(c) a member of the European Parliament for a constituency in the State, being a member who is in receipt of the salary specified in section 2(2) of the European Parliament (Irish Constituency Members) Act 2009, F2[…]

(d) the holder of a qualifying office,

F3[(e) a judge who was appointed to judicial office before the commencement of section 10 of the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Act 2011, or

(f) a military judge appointed under Chapter IVC of Part V of the Defence Act 1954 (as amended by the Defence (Amendment) Act 2011), ]

but does not include the President F4[…]);

“public service body” means—

(a) the Civil Service,

(b) the Garda Síochána,

(c) the Permanent Defence Force,

(d) a local authority for the purposes of the Local Government Act 2001,

(e) the Health Service Executive,

F5[(f) an education and training board,]

(g) a body (other than a body specified or referred to in the Schedule) established—

(i) by or under an enactment (other than the Companies Acts), or

(ii) under the Companies Acts in pursuance of powers conferred by or under another enactment, and financed wholly or partly by means of money provided, or loans made or guaranteed, by a Minister of the Government or the issue of shares held by or on behalf of a Minister of the Government,

in respect of which a public service pension scheme exists or applies or may be made,

(h) a body (other than a body specified or referred to in the Schedule) that is wholly or partly funded directly or indirectly out of money provided by the Oireachtas or from the Central Fund or the growing produce of that Fund and in respect of which a public service pension scheme exists or applies or may be made,

(i) any subsidiary of, or company controlled (within the meaning given by section 10 of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997) by, a body to which paragraph (d), (e), (f), (g) or (h) relates and in respect of which a public service pension scheme exists or applies or may be made;

“public service pension scheme” has the same meaning as in the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act 2009;

“qualifying office” has the same meaning as it has in section 13 (inserted by the Oireachtas (Allowances to Members) and Ministerial, Parliamentary and Judicial Offices (Amendment) Act 1977) of the Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices Act 1938, that is to say—

(a) a ministerial office within the meaning of that section (as amended by the Oireachtas (Allowances to Members) and Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices (Amendment) Act 1973), or

(b) a secretarial office within the meaning of that section (as amended by the Oireachtas (Allowances to Members) and Ministerial, Parliamentary and Judicial Offices (Amendment) Act 1983 and the Ministerial, Parliamentary and Judicial Offices and Oireachtas Members (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2001);

“ relevant provision” means—

(a) a provision of any Act other than this Act,

(b) a provision made under any Act, including any instrument, circular or other document,

(c) a provision of or made under any statute or other document to like effect of a university or other third level institution,

(d) a provision of any circular, instrument or other document, not made pursuant to an enactment, and

(e) a provision of any agreement or contractual arrangement, whether written or not;

“remuneration” means emoluments to which Chapter 4 of Part 42 of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 applies or is applied and payable by or on behalf of a public service body to a public servant for his or her services as a public servant;

“subsidiary” means a subsidiary within the meaning of the Companies Acts.