Córas Beostoic agus Feola Act, 1979

Term of office of members of Board.

7.—(1) The chairman shall hold office for the period of three years from the date of his appointment.

(2) The persons who are first appointed by the Minister to be ordinary members of the Board shall hold office as follows:

(a) three of such members shall hold office for the period of one year from the date of their appointment,

(b) three of such members shall hold office for the period of two years from the date of their appointment,

(c) the remaining three members shall hold office for the period of three years from the date of their appointment.

(3) The members of the Board who are to hold office for the periods specified in paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection (2) of this section shall be decided by lot to be drawn in such manner as may be decided by the Minister subject to the limitation that not more than one person representing the producers of bovine animals and sheep and not more than one person representing the meat export trade and not more than one person appointed by the Minister in accordance with paragraph (a) of subsection (3) of section 6 shall retire in any one year.

(4) Every person who is appointed by the Minister pursuant to this section to be an ordinary member of the Board, other than a first member of the Board, shall hold office for the period of three years from the date of his appointment.