Local Government (Dublin) Act, 1930
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Appointment by the City Corporation of members of certain public bodies. |
40.—(1) So much of any statute or of any order made under any statute as requires that a person elected or nominated to be a member of a public body by the council of a county borough or by the council of an urban district or in particular by the council of the county borough of Dublin or by the council of either of the added urban districts shall be a member of the council by whom he is elected or nominated shall not apply in respect of any person elected or nominated on or after the appointed day by the City Council to be a member of a public body, and in lieu thereof it is hereby enacted that any person who is on or after the appointed day elected or nominated by the City Council to be a member of a public body and who but for this section would be required to be a member of the City Council or of the council of the county borough of Dublin or the council of an added urban district shall be such person willing to act, whether a member or not a member of the City Council, as the City Council considers to be best fitted, by reason of his special knowledge or practical experience of the matters administered by such public body, for membership thereof. | |
(2) Nothing in the foregoing sub-section shall operate to render unnecessary— | ||
(a) the possession by any person who is on or after the appointed day elected or nominated by the City Council to be a member of any public body of any special qualifications (other than membership of the City Council, the council of the county borough of Dublin, or the council of an added urban district) which such person is required by law to possess, or | ||
(b) compliance with the requirements of sub-section (2) of section 9 of the Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1898 , so far as the said sub-section (2) as adapted, amended, or applied by or under any Act of the Oireachtas relates to membership of the joint committee of management of the Grangegorman District Mental Hospital. | ||
(3) The City Manager, notwithstanding that he is not a member of the City Council, shall be qualified and may with his consent be appointed by the City Council to be a member of the joint committee of management of the Grangegorman District Mental Hospital in the same manner as if he were a member of the City Council, and for the purpose of such appointment the office of the City Manager shall be deemed not to be an office of profit within the meaning of Article 12 of the Schedule to the Local Government (Application of Enactments) Order, 1898, or of section 70 of the Act of 1925. | ||
(4) If and when the City Manager is appointed under this section to be a member of the joint committee of management of the Grangegorman District Mental Hospital the number of members of the said committee who are required by law to be members of the City Council shall be reduced by one. |