Harbours Act, 1946
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Removal from office of members of harbour authority. |
30.—(1) If and whenever— | |
(a) the Minister, after holding a local inquiry into the performance by a harbour authority of their duties, is satisfied that such duties are not being duly and effectually performed, or | ||
(b) a harbour authority refuses or neglects to comply with a judgment, order or decree of any court, or | ||
(c) a harbour authority refuses after due notice to allow their accounts to be audited by the auditor appointed by the Minister, or | ||
(d) the members of a harbour authority capable of acting are less in number than the quorum for meetings of such harbour authority, or | ||
(e) a harbour authority refuses or wilfully neglects to comply with an express requirement which is imposed on them by or under any statutory or other enactment, | ||
the Minister may by order remove from office the members of such harbour authority. | ||
(2) On the removal from office of the members of a harbour authority— | ||
(a) the membership of all the members of any committee, being a committee appointed by the harbour authority under section 23 of this Act, shall terminate, and | ||
(b) the membership of all the members of any committee, being a committee appointed by the harbour authority acting as a pilotage authority, shall terminate. | ||
(3) In this Part of this Act, every reference to a removal from office shall be construed as a reference to a removal from office under this section. | ||
(4) Every order made under this section shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as conveniently may be after it is made, and, if a resolution annulling such order is passed by either such House within the next twenty-one days on which such House has sat after such order is laid before it, such order shall be annulled accordingly but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder. |