Prices (Amendment) Act, 1972

Dissolution of Prices Advisory Committees Panel.

7.—(1) The Prices Advisory Committees Panel is hereby dissolved.

(2) The Second Schedule to the Principal Act shall have effect as if—

(a) the following paragraphs were substituted for paragraphs 1 and 2:

“1. (1) Where a person who is a member of an Advisory Committee 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 a member of that Advisory Committee.

(2) A person who is for the time being entitled under the Standing Orders of either House of the Oireachtas to sit therein shall be disqualified from being a member of an Advisory Committee.

2. A person who is a member of an Advisory Committee shall be disqualified from being and shall cease to be a member of that Advisory Committee if he—

(a) is adjudged bankrupt or makes a composition with his creditors, or

(b) is sentenced by a court of competent jurisdiction to suffer imprisonment or penal servitude, or

(c) ceases to be ordinarily resident in the State.”,

(b) in paragraph 3 “from persons who, at the time of appointment, are members of the Panel” were deleted,

(c) in paragraph 4 (2) (c) “person” were substituted for “member of the Panel”,

(d) paragraph 5 (2) (b) were deleted,

(e) in paragraph 6 “a person to fill the vacancy” were substituted for “to fill the vacancy a person who is for the time being a member of the Panel” and

(f) in paragraph 8 (b) “from the Panel” were deleted.