Institute For Advanced Studies Act, 1940

The Registrar.

17.—(1) The Council shall appoint an officer of the Institute who shall be known and is in this Act referred to as the Registrar.

(2) The Registrar shall be the chief executive officer of the Institute and shall perform such duties as are assigned to him by the Council or by this Act.

(3) It shall be the duty of the Registrar to act—

(a) as secretary to the Council, and

(b) as accountant to the Institute, and

(c) as registrar of each Constituent School, and

(d) as secretary to the Governing Board of each such School.

(4) The Registrar shall be paid such remuneration and shall hold office on such tenure and conditions as the Council shall, with the approval of the Minister given with the concurrence of the Minister for Finance, determine.

(5) No person holding the office of Registrar shall, while he holds that office, hold any other office or position, whether academic or non-academic, in the Institute or any Constituent School.

(6) No person shall be appointed to be Registrar under this section unless he satisfies the Council that he possesses such an oral and written knowledge of the Irish language as will enable him to use that language in the performance of his official duties.