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Members of Board.
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8.—(1) The members of the Board shall be appointed by the Minister from time to time as occasion requires but shall not exceed eleven in number.
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(2) Before appointing a member of the Board, the Minister shall consult with such organisations (if any) as he thinks appropriate in relation to the appointment.
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(3) The period of office of a member of the Board shall be such period, not exceeding five years, as the Minister may determine when appointing him.
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(4) A member of the Board whose term of office expires by effluxion of time shall be eligible for re-appointment.
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(5) A member of the Board may at any time resign his office as member by letter sent to the Minister, and the resignation shall take effect on receipt of the letter.
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(6) Where a member of the Board or of a committee established by the Board is nominated either as a candidate for election to either House of the Oireachtas or as a member of Seanad Éireann, he shall thereupon cease to be a member of the Board or of the committee, as the case may be.
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(7) A person who is for the time being entitled under the Standing Orders of either House of the Oireachtas to sit therein shall, while so entitled, be disqualified from becoming a member of the Board or of a committee established by the Board.
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(8) A member of the Board shall hold office on such terms as the Minister may determine from time to time.
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(9) A member of the Board or of any committee established by the Board shall be paid, out of funds at the disposal of the Board, such allowances for expenses as the Minister, with the approval of the Minister for Finance, considers reasonable.
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(10) A member of the Board shall be disqualified from holding and shall cease to hold office if he is adjudicated a bankrupt or makes a composition or arrangement with creditors or is sentenced by a court of competent jurisdiction to suffer imprisonment or penal servitude or ceases to be ordinarily resident in the State.
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(11) The Minister may at any time remove a member of the Board from office.
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