Gaeltacht Industries Act, 1957

Request to Local Appointments Commission to recommend person.

16.—(1) The Board may, if it so thinks fit, for the purpose of the appointment of a person to fill a situation in the service of the Board request the Local Appointments Commissioners to recommend to it a person for appointment to such situation and the Commissioners on receiving such request shall select and recommend under and in accordance with the Local Authorities (Officers and Employees) Act, 1926 (No. 39 of 1926), to the Board a person for appointment to such situation and shall, if they so think proper, select and recommend to the Board two or more persons for such appointment, and the Board on receiving from the Commissioners such recommendation shall appoint to such situation the person so recommended by the Commissioners or, where more than one person is so recommended, such one of the persons so recommended as the Board thinks proper.

(2) The Board shall pay to the Local Appointments Commissioners out of the funds at its disposal such expenses in respect of the selection and recommendation by the Commissioners under this section of persons to fill situations in the service of the Board as shall be fixed by agreement between the Board and the Commissioners or, in default of such agreement, by the Minister for Finance.

(3) Every sum received by the Local Appointments Commissioners under subsection (2) of this section shall be deemed for the purposes of paragraph (b) of subsection (2) of section 12 of the Local Authorities (Officers and Employees) Act, 1926 , to be a fee paid to the Commissioners under that Act.