Regional Technical Colleges (Amendment) Act, 1999

County Dublin and Dún Laoghaire Vocational Education Committees.

11.—(1) The County Dublin Vocational Education Committee shall consist of not more than 16 members.

(2) The members of the committee referred to in subsection (1) shall be elected by the councils of the countries of South Dublin, Fingal and Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown and the number of members to be elected by each of those councils shall be such as shall be specified in regulations made by the Minister for the purposes of this subsection (which the Minister is hereby empowered to make)

(3) Regulations for the purposes of subsection (2) shall also provide that a specified number of the persons to be elected to be members of the committee referred to in subsection (1) by each council referred to in subsection (2) shall be members of that council.

(4) The Dún Laoghaire Vocational Education Committee shall consist of 14 members elected by the council of the county of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, of whom not less than five and not more than eight shall be persons who are members of that council.

(5) The persons holding office as members of the County Dublin Vocational Education Committee and the Dún Laoghaire Vocational Education Committee by virtue of section 19 of the Local Government (Dublin) Act, 1993 , shall continue to hold office until the commencement of the term of office of the persons elected in accordance with this section.

(6) The term of office of the persons elected to be members of the County Dublin Vocational Education Committee in accordance with this section shall commence on the 7th day after the last day on which an election of persons for that purpose is held.

(7) The term of office of the persons elected to be members of the Dún Laoghaire Vocational Education Committee in accordance with this section shall commence on the 7th day after the day on which an election of persons for that purpose is held.

(8) Section 12 of the Act of 1930 is hereby amended in subsection (2) by the insertion after “provisions of this Act” of “or, as the case may be, regulations made under section 11 of the Regional Technical Colleges (Amendment) Act, 1999,”.

(9) This section shall have effect notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Act of 1930.

(10) This section shall cease to have effect two years after the commencement of this Act.