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Part II.
ASSISTANT UNDER-SHERIFFS.
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Minister may appoint assistant under-sheriffs.
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16.—(1) It shall be lawful for the Minister from time to time to appoint such number of fit and proper persons as he shall consider necessary to be assistant under-sheriffs to perform such duties as shall from time to time be assigned to them respectively under this Act:
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Provided always that the number of assistant under-sheriffs appointed and holding office under this Act shall not exceed six at any one time.
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(2) A person appointed under this Act to be an assistant under-sheriff may be removed from that office at any time by the Minister.
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(3) Every assistant under-sheriff appointed under this Act shall be paid out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas such salary as the Minister shall, with the sanction of the Minister for Finance, determine.
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(4) It shall not be necessary for any person appointed under this Act to be an assistant under-sheriff to possess the qualifications prescribed by sub-section (3) of section 1 of the Sheriffs (Ireland) Act, 1920, for persons appointed to be under-sheriffs.
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