Worker Participation (State Enterprises) Act, 1977
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Number of members or directors of designated body may be altered to provide that the number of such members or directors appointed under Act shall constitute not less than one third. |
23.—(1) (a) Subject to subsection (2) of this section, the Minister may as regards any designated body, after consultation with the Minister for Finance and, in case a Minister of State other than that Minister is, as regards the body, the appropriate Minister, that other Minister of State, by order provide that on and from a day fixed by the order the number of members or directors, as may be appropriate, of the body, that is to say, the number comprising, | |
(i) the members or directors of the body who may be appointed under this Act, and | ||
(ii) the ordinary members or ordinary directors of the body, | ||
shall be such number as is specified in the order. | ||
(b) The number of members or directors specified in an order under this section shall be such as the Minister, having regard to the provisions of this Act and to the functions of the designated body to which the order relates, considers appropriate. | ||
(2) An order under this section shall fix the number (in this Act referred to as the “appropriate number”) of members or directors, as may be appropriate, of the designated body to which the order relates who may for the time being stand appointed under this Act, and the number so fixed shall be, | ||
(a) in case the number specified by the Minister in the order pursuant to subsection (1) of this section is a multiple of three, one third of the number so specified, and | ||
(b) in case the number so specified is not such a multiple, the number of members or directors, as may be appropriate, which is next above the number which is one third of the number so specified. | ||
(3) Where an order under this section relates to a designated body to which an enactment mentioned in subsection (4) of this section applies, then for so long as the order is in force, the enactment shall be construed and shall have effect in accordance with the order. | ||
(4) The enactments referred to in subsection (3) of this section are section 2 (3) of the Electricity (Supply) Act, 1927 , paragraph 3 of the Schedule to the Sugar Manufacture Act, 1933 (inserted by section 4 of the Sugar Manufacture (Amendment) Act, 1973 ), section 8 (1) of the Turf Development Act, 1946 , section 6 (1) (b) of the Transport Act, 1950 , section 8 (1) of the British and Irish Steam Packet Company Limited (Acquisition) Act, 1965 , and section 12 (1) of the Air Companies Act, 1966 . |