Local Government (Dublin) Act, 1930

Appointment by the Borough Corporation of members of certain public bodies.

48.—(1) So much of any statute or of any order made under any statute as requires that a person elected or nominated to be a member of a public body by the council of a borough or of an urban district or in particular by the council of any of the coastal urban districts shall be a member of the council by whom he is elected or nominated shall not apply in respect of any person elected or nominated, on or after the appointed day, by the Borough Council to be a member of a public body, and in lieu thereof it is hereby enacted that any person who is, on or after the appointed day, elected or nominated by the Borough Council to be a member of any public body and who but for this section would be required to be a member of the Borough Council or of the council of a coastal urban district, shall be such person, whether a member or not a member of the Borough Council, as the Borough Council considers to be best fitted, by reason of his special knowledge or practical experience of the matters administered by such public body, for membership thereof.

(2) Nothing in the foregoing sub-section shall operate to render unnecessary the possession by any person who is, on or after the appointed day, elected or nominated by the Borough Council to be a member of any public body of any special qualifications (other than membership of the Borough Council or of the council of a coastal urban district) which such person is required by law to possess.