Local Government Act, 1955

Panels of persons qualified for appointment to offices.

30.—(1) In this section “panel classification” means any class, description or grade of office determined for the purposes of this section by the Local Appointments Commissioners.

(2) The Local Appointments Commissioners, if they so think fit, may, in accordance with rules under subsection (4) of this section, arrange from time to time for examining, as respects all or any of the offices of a particular panel classification, the qualifications of persons desirous of being appointed to any vacancies that exist or may occur and for preparing a panel of such persons from which a recommendation may be made in compliance with a request (received either before or after the completion of the panel) under section 6 of the Principal Act or subsection (2) of section 4 of the County Management Act, 1940 (No. 12 of 1940).

(3) Where the Local Appointments Commissioners are requested under section 6 of the Principal Act or subsection (2) of section 4 of the County Management Act, 1940 (No. 12 of 1940), to recommend a person for appointment to an office of a panel classification, the Local Appointments Commissioners, if they so think fit, may select a person from the relevant panel prepared under subsection (2) of this section and recommend such person for appointment.

(4) The Local Appointments Commissioners may, with the consent of the appropriate Minister, make rules for the purposes of subsection (2) of this section applying either generally to all panel classifications or to any particular panel classification.

In this section “the appropriate Minister” has the same meaning as “the Minister” has in the Principal Act, as amended and adapted by subsequent enactments.