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Reconstitution of the Board.
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45.—(1) From and after the appointed day, the Congested Districts Board shall consist of the following members:—
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(a) The Chief Secretary, the Under Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant, and the Vice-President of the Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction for Ireland, who shall be ex-officio members:
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(b) Nine members appointed by His Majesty (in this Act referred to as appointed members):
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(c) Two paid members appointed by His Majesty (in this Act referred to as permanent members).
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(2) An appointed member shall hold office for five years, and shall be eligible for re-appointment. On a casual vacancy occurring by reason of the death, resignation, or incapacity of an appointed member or otherwise, the person appointed by His Majesty to fill the vacancy shall continue in office until the member in whose place he was appointed would have retired, and shall then retire.
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(3) Each of the permanent members shall hold office during pleasure, and shall be paid by the Board out of the funds at their disposal an annual salary of two thousand pounds:
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Provided that a permanent member shall not be removed from his office except by an Order in Council, and any such Order shall be laid before each House of Parliament forthwith, and, if an Address is presented to His Majesty by either House of Parliament within the next subsequent forty days on which that House has sat after any such Order is laid before it praying that the Order may be annulled, His Majesty in Council may annul the Order, and it shall thenceforth be void.
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(4) Every existing member of the Congested Districts Board who is not an ex-officio member, or is not appointed under or in pursuance of this section, shall cease to hold office on the appointed day.
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