Pigs and Bacon Act, 1935

Resignation and disqualification of ordinary members and substitutive members.

83.—(1) An ordinary member or a substitutive member may at any time resign his office as such member by letter addressed and sent to the secretary of the Board and every such resignation shall take effect at the commencement of the meeting of the Board held next after the receipt of such letter by the secretary.

(2) If and whenever any ordinary member or substitutive member is adjudged bankrupt, or makes a composition or arrangement with his creditors or is sentenced by a court of competent jurisdiction to suffer imprisonment or penal servitude, or ceases to be ordinarily resident in Saorstát Eireann or, in the case of an ordinary member, absents himself without the consent of the Board from all meetings of the Board for a period of three months, he shall cease to hold office as an ordinary member or substitutive member, as the case may be.