Dublin Institute of Technology Act, 1992

Directors of Institute.

10.—(1) Subject to subsection (4) the Governing Body shall appoint to the Institute in a whole-time capacity such and so manypersons to be Directors of the Institute as the Governing Body, with the approval of the Minister, recommends.

(2) The selection of a Director shall be a function of the Governing Body in accordance with procedures, which shall include the composition of a selection board, determined, from time to time, by the Minister.

(3) Notwithstanding subsection (2), a person who, at the passing of this Act, is employed as the Principal of an institution specified in the First Schedule to this Act and is still so employed at the commencement of this Act shall, if that person consents, be appointed by the Governing Body to be a Director of the Institute.

(4) Persons appointed under this section shall be known and are referred to in this Act as Directors and the persons appointed under subsection (3) shall be the first Directors of the Institute.

(5) The Directors shall be responsible to the President and may be assigned such responsibilities in relation to the Institute as the Governing Body, on the recommendation of the President, decides.

(6) Notwithstanding subsection (2) a person who, at the commencement of an order made under section 3 (3) of this Act, is employed as Principal of an educational institution which, under such order, is incorporated into the Institute shall if that person consents be appointed by the Governing Body to be a Director of the Institute.