Hospitals Federation and Amalgamation Act, 1961
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Membership of hospital boards. |
8.—(1) Every person who, on the establishment day, becomes a member of a hospital board (other than the board of the Meath Hospital) shall continue to be a member of that board until he dies, resigns or ceases under subsection (2) or subsection (3) of this section to be a member thereof. | |
(2) Any member of a hospital board who is absent from meetings of the board for a continuous period of six months and who, on being requested by the board to furnish an explanation of such absence, fails to furnish an explanation which is satisfactory to the board shall cease to be a member thereof on a date to be determined by the board. | ||
(3) Any member of a hospital board who | ||
(a) became a member of the board by virtue of his having been, immediately before the establishment day, a member, appointed on the recommendation of a local authority, of the governing body of the hospital, or | ||
(b) was co-opted as a member of the board on the recommendation of the Dublin Health Authority, | ||
shall cease to be a member of the board on the day of such first meeting of the Dublin Health Authority after a quinquennial appointment of the members of that Authority as next follows the commencement of his term of office. | ||
(4) Where a vacancy occurs in the membership of a hospital board (other than the board of the Meath Hospital), the vacancy shall be filled by co-option by the board. | ||
(5) Where a vacancy in the membership of a hospital board falling to filled under subsection (4) of this section is caused by— | ||
(a) a person ceasing under subsection (3) of this section to be a member of the board, or | ||
(b) the death, resignation or cesser of membership under subsection (2) of this section of a person who, if he had not died, resigned or so ceased to be a member of the board, would have ceased under subsection (3) of this section to be a member of the board, | ||
the hospital board, in filling the vacancy, shall have regard to any recommendation made by the Dublin Health Authority as to the person to be co-opted. | ||
(6) The membership of the hospital board of the Meath Hospital shall be governed by the provisions of sections 4 , 4A, 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 10 and 11 of the Meath Hospital Act, 1951 , as amended by subsection (12) of section 24 of the Health Authorities Act, 1960 , in like manner as if the board were the joint committee of the Meath Hospital, and, for that purpose, a member of the board ceasing under subsection (2) of this section to be a member of the board shall be deemed to have resigned. | ||
(7) (a) The Minister may, if he so thinks proper but subject to the next paragraph, by order modify the composition of a hospital board (other than the board of the Meath Hospital). | ||
(b) An order under this subsection shall not be made save on and in accordance with the request of the hospital board concerned. |