Urban Renewal Act, 1986

Employees.

20.—(1) The Authority shall appoint such and so many persons to be employees of the Authority as the Authority, subject to the approval of the Minister as to the number and classes of such employees, from time to time thinks proper.

(2) An employee of the Authority shall hold his employment on such terms and conditions as the Authority, subject to the approval of the Minister given with the consent of the Minister for the Public Service, from time to time determines.

(3) There shall be paid by the Authority to its employees out of moneys at its disposal such remuneration and allowances for expenses as the Authority, subject to the approval of the Minister given with the consent of the Minister for the Public Service, from time to time determines.

(4) Subject to the approval of the Minister given with the consent of the Minister for the Public Service, the Authority may, in relation to employees of the Authority, or in relation to a class or classes of employees of the Authority, make such provision as it considers appropriate in relation to the superannuation of the employees or in relation to the superannuation of a class or classes of employees.

(5) 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 becoming an employee of the Authority.

(6) Where a person who is an employee 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 stand seconded from employment by the Authority and shall not be paid by, or be entitled to receive from, the Authority any remuneration or allowances—

(i) in case he is nominated as a member of Seanad Éireann, or is elected as a member of either such House, in respect of the period commencing on such nomination or election, as the case may be, and ending when he ceases to be a member of either such House;

(ii) in case he is elected as a member of, or is regarded as having been elected to, such Assembly, in respect of the period commencing on such election and ending when he ceases to be a member of such Assembly, or

(iii) in case he becomes a member of a local authority, in respect of the period commencing on his becoming a member of the local authority and ending when he ceases to be a member of that authority.