Local Authorities (Officers and Employees) Act, 1926

Appointment of Local Appointments Commissioners.

3.—(1) It shall be lawful for the Executive Council from time to time to appoint fit and proper persons to be Local Appointments Commissioners (in this Act referred to as “the Commissioners”) to fulfil the functions assigned to such Commissioners by this Act.

(2) A person shall not be ineligible for appointment as a Commissioner under this Act by reason only of his being a Civil Service Commissioner under the Civil Service Regulation Act, 1924 (No. 5 of 1924).

(3) The Commissioners shall not at any time exceed three in number.

(4) Every person appointed under this section to be a Local Appointments Commissioner shall hold office during the pleasure of the Executive Council.

(5) Every appointment and every removal of a Commissioner under this section shall be published immediately in the Iris Oifigiúil.