Worker Participation (State Enterprises) Act, 1988

Amendment of section 23 of Principal Act.

21.—Section 23 of the Principal Act is hereby amended by—

(a) the substitution for subsection (2) of the following subsection:

“(2) An order under this section shall fix the number (in this Act referred to as the ‘appropriate number’) of members or directors, as may be appropriate, of the designated body to which the order relates who may for the time being stand appointed under this Act and the number so appointed shall be—

(a) in case the designated body is a body specified in Part I of the Second Schedule to this Act—

(i) if the number specified by the Minister in the order pursuant to subsection (1) of this section is a multiple of three, one third of the number so specified, and

(ii) if the number so specified is not such a multiple, the number of members or directors, as may be appropriate, which is next above the number which is one third of the number so specified,

or

(b) in case the designated body is a body specified in Part II of the Second Schedule to this Act, not less than two such members or directors, as may be appropriate, nor more than—

(i) if the number specified by the Minister in the order pursuant to subsection (1) of this section is a multiple of three, one third of the number so specified, and

(ii) if the number so specified is not such a multiple, the number of members or directors, as may be appropriate, which is next above the number which is one third of the number so specified.”,

and

(b) the substitution for subsection (4) of the following subsections:

“(4) The enactments referred to in subsection (3) of this section are—

(a) sections 12 (1) and 12 (3) of the Air Companies Act, 1966 ;

(b) section 8 (1) of the British and Irish Steam Packet Company Limited (Acquisition) Act, 1965 ;

(c) section 2 (3) of the Electricity (Supply) Act, 1927 ;

(d) paragraph (3) of the Schedule to the Sugar Manufacture Act, 1933 (inserted by section 4 of the Sugar Manufacture (Amendment) Act, 1973);

(e) section 6 (1) (b) of the Transport Act, 1950 ;

(f) section 8 (1) of the Turf Development Act, 1946 ;

(g) section 16 (2) (a) of the Postal and Telecommunications Services Act, 1983 ;

(h) Article 5 of the National Rehabilitation Board (Establishment) Order, 1967 (S.I. No. 300 of 1967).

(5) In this section ‘enactment’ includes a statutory instrument.”.