Air Companies Act, 1966

Membership of either House of the Oireachtas by directors, officers and servants of the air companies.

14.—(1) Where a director of an air company is nominated either as a candidate for election to either House of the Oireachtas or as a member of Seanad Éireann, he shall thereupon cease to be a director of the company.

(2) Where a person who is either an officer or a servant in the employment of an air company becomes a member of either House of the Oireachtas—

(a) he shall, during the period commencing upon his becoming entitled under the Standing Orders of that House to sit therein and ending either when he ceases to be a member of that House, or, if it should sooner happen, upon his resignation or retirement from such employment or upon the termination of such employment by the company, stand seconded from such employment,

(b) he shall not be paid by, or entitled to receive from, the company any salary or wages, as the case may be, in respect of that period.

(3) If a person who is or was an officer or servant of an air company becomes entitled to a pension under the Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices Acts, 1938 to 1960, he shall not be entitled to reckon the whole or any part of his period of pensionable service, within the meaning of those Acts, for any superannuation benefits payable under a scheme made by the company for the payment of superannuation benefits to or in respect of the officers or servants of the company.

(4) A person who is for the time being entitled under the Standing Orders of either House of the Oireachtas to sit therein shall, while so entitled, be disqualified from becoming a director of the company or an officer or servant of the company.