Electricity Supply Board (Superannuation) Act, 1942

Establishment of the Tribunal.

9.—(1) As soon as conveniently may be after the passing of this Act, the Minister shall cause a tribunal (in this Act referred to as the Tribunal) to be established in accordance with this section for the purposes mentioned in this Act.

(2) The Tribunal shall consist of a chairman and two ordinary members appointed in accordance with the following provisions, that is to say:—

(a) one of the ordinary members of the Tribunal shall be nominated and appointed by the Board;

(b) the other of the ordinary members of the Tribunal shall be nominated and appointed by the persons for the time being in the employment of the Board who are manual workers in such manner as shall be prescribed by regulations made by the Minister under this section;

(c) the chairman of the Tribunal shall be appointed by the Minister on the joint nomination of the two ordinary members, but if either or both of those members informs or inform the Minister that they cannot agree on a joint nomination, the chairman shall be nominated and appointed by the Minister.

(3) Every member of the Tribunal shall, unless he sooner dies or resigns, hold office as such member for five years from the date of his appointment, but shall be eligible for re-appointment.

(4) If the chairman of the Tribunal is for any reason temporarily unable to act as chairman, the Minister may on the joint nomination of the two ordinary members of the Tribunal appoint another person to act temporarily as the chairman of the Tribunal during such inability, but if either or both of the said ordinary members informs or inform the Minister that they cannot agree on a joint nomination, the Minister may himself nominate the person so to be appointed by him.

(5) If the ordinary member of the Tribunal nominated and appointed by the Board is for any reason temporarily unable to act as a member of the Tribunal, the Board shall nominate and appoint another person to act temporarily as a member of the Tribunal during such inability.

(6) If the ordinary member of the Tribunal nominated and appointed by the persons for the time being in the employment of the Board who are manual workers is for any reason temporarily unable to act as a member of the Tribunal, the said persons shall nominate and appoint (in such manner as shall be prescribed by regulations made by the Minister under this section) another person to act temporarily as a member of the Tribunal during such inability.

(7) The Minister may, after consultation with such person or persons or organisation or organisations as appear to him to be representative of manual workers in the employment of the Board, make regulations prescribing the manner in which the persons for the time being in the employment of the Board who are manual workers shall nominate and appoint the ordinary member of the Tribunal to be nominated and appointed by them and the manner in which those persons shall nominate and appoint a person to act temporarily as a member of the Tribunal during the inability of the said ordinary member to act as such member.