Greyhound Racing Act 2019
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Exclusion from membership of Board or staff of Board | ||
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11. (1) Where a member of the Board or a committee of the Board or a director of a subsidiary is nominated as a candidate for election to the European Parliament, or to either House of the Oireachtas, he or she is suspended from membership of the Board or the committee or as a director of the subsidiary, and is not entitled to participate in meetings of the Board, the committee or the subsidiary or receive from the Board or the subsidiary any remuneration or allowances in respect of the period commencing on such nomination and ending when the person is regarded as not having been elected. | ||
(2) Where a member of the Board or a committee of the Board or the chief executive or a director of a subsidiary, is— | ||
(a) nominated as a member of Seanad Éireann, | ||
(b) elected as a member of either House of the Oireachtas or to be a member of the European Parliament, or | ||
(c) regarded under Part XIII of the Second Schedule to the European Parliament Elections Act 1997 , as having been elected to the European Parliament to fill a vacancy, | ||
he or she ceases to be a member of the Board, or the committee, the chief executive or director of the subsidiary. | ||
(3) A person who is entitled under the Standing Orders of either House of the Oireachtas to sit in that House or who is a member of the European Parliament, while he or she is so entitled or is such a member, is disqualified from membership of the Board. | ||
(4) Where a person who is a member of the staff of the Board is— | ||
(a) nominated as a candidate for election to either House of the Oireachtas or the European Parliament, | ||
(b) elected as a member of either House of the Oireachtas or the European Parliament, | ||
(c) nominated as a member of Seanad Éireann, or | ||
(d) regarded under Part XIII of the Second Schedule to the European Parliament Elections Act 1997 as having been elected to the European Parliament to fill a vacancy, | ||
he or she is seconded from employment by the Board and shall not be paid by, or be entitled to receive from, the Board any remuneration or allowances in respect of the period commencing on such nomination or election, or when he or she is so regarded as having been elected, as the case may be, and ending when the person is regarded as not having been elected or ceases to be a member of either House or the Parliament. |