Urban Renewal Act, 1986
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Chairman and ordinary members of Authority. |
10.—(1) The Minister shall appoint the chairman and ordinary members of the Authority. | |
(2) (a) The Minister shall, when appointing a chairman of the Authority, fix his term of office, and subject to subsections (5) and (8), the chairman of the Authority shall hold his office on such terms as the Minister, with the consent of the Minister for the Public Service, determines. | ||
(b) The Minister shall, when appointing an ordinary member of the Authority, fix the member's term of office and, subject to subsections (6) and (8), the member shall hold office on such terms and conditions as the Minister, with the consent of the Minister for the Public Service, determines. | ||
(3) A chairman or ordinary member of the Authority whose term of office expires by the effluxion of time shall be eligible for reappointment. | ||
(4) The chairman and ordinary members of the Authority shall be paid by the Authority such remuneration (if any) and allowances for expenses as the Minister, with the consent of the Minister for the Public Service, determines. | ||
(5) (a) The chairman of the Authority may resign from office by letter addressed to the Minister and the resignation shall take effect from the date of the receipt of the letter by the Minister. | ||
(b) The Minister may remove from office the chairman of the Authority if in the opinion of the Minister he has become incapable through ill-health of effectively performing his duties or has committed stated misbehaviour or his removal appears to the Minister to be necessary or desirable for the effective performance by the Authority of its functions. | ||
(6) (a) An ordinary member of the Authority may resign from office by letter addressed to the Minister and the resignation shall take effect from the date of receipt of the letter by the Minister. | ||
(b) The Minister may remove from office an ordinary member of the Authority if in the opinion of the Minister he has become incapable through ill-health of effectively performing his duties or has committed stated misbehaviour or his removal appears to the Minister to be necessary or desirable for the effective performance by the Authority of its functions. | ||
(7) A person who is for the time being— | ||
(a) entitled under the Standing Orders of either House of the Oireachtas to sit therein, | ||
(b) a representative in the Assembly of the European Communities, or | ||
(c) a member of a local authority, | ||
shall be disqualified from being appointed chairman or an ordinary member of the Authority. | ||
(8) Where the chairman or an ordinary member of the Authority— | ||
(a) is nominated as a member of Seanad Éireann or elected as a member of either House of the Oireachtas, | ||
(b) is elected as a member of the Assembly of the European Communities or is regarded pursuant to section 15 (inserted by the European Assembly Elections Act, 1984 ) of the European Assembly Elections Act, 1977 , as having been elected to such Assembly to fill a vacancy, or | ||
(c) becomes a member of a local authority, | ||
he shall thereupon cease to be chairman or an ordinary member of the Authority. |