Nuclear Energy (An Bord Fuinnimh Nuicleigh) Act, 1971

Members of Board.

7.—(1) The members of the Board shall be appointed by the Minister with the consent of the Minister for Finance and shall be not more than seven.

(2) The period of office of a member of the Board shall be such period, not exceeding five years, as the Minister, with the consent of the Minister for Finance, may determine when appointing him.

(3) A member of the Board whose term of office expires by effluxion of time shall be eligible for reappointment.

(4) The Minister may, with the consent of the Minister for Finance, remove a member of the Board from office at any time.

(5) A member of the Board may at any time resign his office as member by letter sent to the Minister.

(6) Where a member of the Board is nominated either as a candidate for election to either House of the Oireachtas or as a member of Seanad Éireann, he shall thereupon cease to be a member of the Board.

(7) 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 a member of the Board.