Veterinary Surgeons Act, 1931

Casual vacancies amongst elected members of the Council.

11.—(1) An elected member of the Council may at any time resign his office as such member by letter addressed and sent to the registrar, and every such resignation shall take effect at the commencement of the meeting of the Council commencing next after the receipt of such resignation by the registrar.

(2) Every general elected member of the Council shall, upon his either ceasing to be a registered veterinary surgeon, or ceasing to be registered in the general veterinary register, or ceasing to be resident in Saorstát Eireann forthwith be disqualified for continuing to be a member of the Council.

(3) Every limited elected member of the Council shall, upon his either ceasing to be a registered veterinary surgeon or ceasing to be resident in Saorstát Eireann, forthwith be disqualified for continuing to be a member of the Council.

(4) Whenever a vacancy (in this Act called a casual vacancy) occurs in the membership of the Council by reason of the death, resignation, or disqualification of an elected member, such vacancy shall (save as is hereinafter otherwise provided) be filled at the annual election held next after the occurrence of such vacancy unless the term of office of such member was due to expire at the anniversary of the establishment of the Council next after the occurrence of such vacancy.

(5) Whenever a casual vacancy occurs in the membership of the Council in the period between the appointment of a returning officer for an annual election and the anniversary of the establishment of the Council in relation to which such annual election is held, such vacancy shall be filled at the annual election held in the following year unless the term of office of the member whose death, resignation, or disqualification occasioned the vacancy was due to expire at the said anniversary or at the next following such anniversary.

(6) Whenever a casual vacancy occurs in the membership of the Council, the Council may, if it thinks proper so to do, itself elect a qualified person to fill such vacancy temporarily until the filling of such vacancy under the foregoing provisions of this section or the date at which the term of office of the member whose death, resignation, or disqualification occasioned the vacancy was due to expire, whichever first happens.

(7) A person elected by the Council under this section to fill a casual vacancy temporarily shall be eligible for election as a member of the Council at any annual election held while he so temporarily fills such vacancy.