Dairy Produce Marketing Act, 1961

Staff of the Board.

25.—(1) The Board may, from time to time as occasion requires, appoint such and so many persons to be officers and servants of the Board as it thinks fit, but subject to subsection (6) of this section, a person shall not be appointed under this section to be an officer of the Board unless he has been selected by means of a public competition.

(2) An officer or servant of the Board shall hold his office or employment on such terms and conditions as the Board from time to time determines.

(3) There shall be paid by the Board to its officers and servants out of the Fund such remuneration and allowances as—

(a) in the case of the chief officer, the Minister, with the consent of the Minister for Finance, from time to time determines, and

(b) in any other case, the Board from time to time determines.

(4) The Board may at any time remove any officer or servant of the Board from being its officer or servant.

(5) In so far as the terms and conditions of service (including terms and conditions in relation to remuneration and allowances) determined under or specified in subsections (2), (3) and (4) of this section are inconsistent with any provision for the time being in force of a contract of service specified in section 51 of this Act in relation to any officer or servant of the Board, they shall not apply in relation to that officer or servant unless and until he notifies the Board in writing that he wishes those terms and conditions to apply in relation to him, and if he does so notify the Board, that provision of the contract of service shall, upon such notification, cease to apply in relation to him.

(6) The requirement under subsection (1) of this section of being selected by means of a public competition shall not apply in relation to:

(a) a person who, immediately before the transfer day was an officer of the Committee,

(b) an appointment consisting of the promotion of a person who is already an officer of the Board,

(c) an office for which, in the opinion of the Board, specialised qualifications not commonly held are required, or

(d) an office to which appointments are made for limited periods only, being periods not exceeding two years.

(7) Where an officer or servant of the Board becomes a member of either House of the Oireachtas, he shall, upon his becoming entitled under the Standing Orders of that House to sit therein, cease to be such officer or servant.

(8) A person who is for the time being entitled under the Standing Orders of either House of the Oireachtas to sit therein, shall, while so entitled, be disqualified from becoming an officer or servant of the Board.