Housing (Private Rented Dwellings) (Amendment) Act, 1983

Membership of Houses of Oireachtas, etc., by member of Tribunal.

3.—(1) A person who, for the time being, is entitled under the Standing Orders of either House of the Oireachtas to sit therein or is a representative in the Assembly of the European Communities or a member of a local authority shall be disqualified from being appointed to be a member of the Tribunal.

(2) A member of the Tribunal who—

(a) is nominated either as a member of Seanad Éireann or for election to either House of the Oireachtas, or

(b) is either nominated for election to the Assembly of the European Communities or appointed to be a representative in that Assembly, or

(c) becomes a member of a local authority,

shall thereupon cease to be a member of the Tribunal.

(3) In this section “local authority” means the council of a county, the corporation of a county or other borough, the council of an urban district or the commissioners of a town.