15. (1) A Commissioner shall retire on attaining retirement age.

(2) Subject to subsection (3), the Minister shall, with the consent of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, make and carry out, in accordance with its terms, a scheme or schemes for the granting of pensions, gratuities or other allowances on retirement or death to or in respect of persons who have held the office of Commissioner.

(3) A scheme made under this section shall not provide for the granting of pensions, gratuities or other allowances to or in respect of a person referred to in subsection (2) where the Single Public Service Pension Scheme applies to that person by virtue of Chapter 2 of Part 2 of the Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme and Other Provisions) Act 2012.

(4) The Minister may, with the consent of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, at any time make and carry out, in accordance with its terms, a scheme or schemes amending or revoking a scheme under this section.

(5) A scheme under this section shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is made and, if a resolution annulling the scheme is passed by either such House within the next 21 days on which that House sits after the scheme is laid before it, the scheme shall be annulled accordingly, but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder.

(6) In this section “retirement age” means the age specified in section 13(2) of the Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme and Other Provisions) Act 2012 or such later age as the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform may, by order, determine under that Act.