Civil Service (Transferred Officers) Compensation Act, 1929

The officers' panel.

6.—(1) In this section—

the expression “original member” means a member of the officers' panel who is such member by virtue of being named in the Second Schedule to this Act;

the expression “co-opted member” means a member of the officers' panel chosen under this Act to be such member by the members of the officers' panel;

the expression “member of the officers' panel” includes both original members and co-opted members;

the expression “transferred officer in the employment of the Government of Saorstát Eireann” includes a transferred officer who has been discharged or has retired from the service of the Government of Saorstát Eireann in circumstances entitling him to compensation under Article 10 of the Treaty and has re-entered the said service on appointment to a new office or situation;

the expression “casual vacancy” means a vacancy in the membership of the officers' panel occasioned by the death, resignation, or disqualification, or the removal under this section of a member thereof and includes a vacancy occasioned by the death or disqualification of an original member before the passing of this Act.

(2) The officers' panel shall consist of the twenty-five persons named in the Second Schedule to this Act and such other persons as shall from time to time be chosen under this section to fill casual vacancies in the membership of that panel, or be appointed under the next following section of this Act to fill vacancies occasioned under that section.

(3) A member of the officers' panel may at any time resign his membership thereof by notice in writing to the Chairman.

(4) Whenever a member of the officers' panel ceases to be a transferred officer in the employment of the Government of Saorstát Eireann, he shall be disqualified for being and shall forth with cease to be a member of the officers' panel.

(5) A member of the officers' panel may at any time be removed for cause stated from that panel by resolution in writing signed by not less than eighteen members of the officers' panel and delivered to the Chairman.

(6) Whenever a casual vacancy occurs in the membership of the officers' panel, the remaining members of the officers' panel shall choose in such manner as they think fit a transferred officer in the employment of the Government of Saorstát Eireann to fill such vacancy.

(7) The two members of the Board to be drawn from the officers' panel for the purpose of any sitting of the Board shall be selected by the members of that panel in such manner as they shall arrange amongst themselves.