Detained Animals (Compensation) Act, 1932

Committee of assessors.

3.—(1) Every claim for compensation under this Act in respect of the detention of any cattle or sheep shall be referred by the Trustees to and shall be investigated by a committee of assessors consisting of three persons who shall, if and so far as qualified members of the Trustees are available, be members of the Trustees and be appointed by the Trustees and shall, if or so far as such members are not available, be persons engaged in the business of exporting cattle and sheep from Saorstát Eireann and be appointed on the request of the Trustees by the organisation commonly called the National Executive of the Irish Live Stock Trade (in this section referred to as the National Executive) but no such committee of assessors shall include a member of the Trustees who in pursuance of the Act of 1928 was nominated to be such member on account of his being engaged in the business of exporting pigs from Saorstát Eireann.

(2) Every claim for compensation under this Act in respect of the detention of any pigs shall be referred by the Trustees to and shall be investigated by a committee of assessors consisting of three persons who shall, if and so far as qualified members of the Trustees are available, be members of the Trustees who in pursuance of the Act of 1928 were nominated as such members on account of their being engaged in the business of exporting pigs from Saorstát Eireann and be appointed to such committee by the Trustees and shall, so far as such members are not available, be persons engaged in the business of exporting pigs from Saorstát Eireann and be appointed by the National Executive on the request of the Trustees.

(3) A person who has a pecuniary interest in a claim for compensation under this Act shall be disqualified from being a member of the committee of assessors investigating such claim.

(4) Committees of assessors for the purposes of this section shall be appointed by the Trustees and by the National Executive on the request of the Trustees as and when occasion requires or the Trustees consider such appointment desirable.