Poor Relief (Ireland) Act, 1838

Removal of paid officers.

33. The commissioners may and they are hereby authorized and empowered, as and when they shall think proper, by their order, either upon or without any suggestion or complaint in that behalf from the guardians of any union, to remove any paid officer appointed under the provisions of this Act, whom, they shall deem unfit for or incompetent to discharge the duties of any such office, or who shall at any time refuse or neglect to obey and carry into effect any of the orders of the commissioners, and to require from time to time the persons competent in that behalf to appoint a fit and proper person in his room; and in case of the refusal or neglect of the (persons competent to appoint, or in case the officer removed shall be an officer whom the commissioners are by the provisions of this Act directly empowered to appoint, the commissioners are hereby authorized to appoint a fit and proper person in the room of the person so removed; and any person so removed shall not be competent to be appointed to or to fill any paid office connected with the relief or management of the destitute poor in any union, except with the consent of the commissioners.