County Management Act, 1940

Tenure of office of county manager.

5.—(1) Every person appointed to be the county manager for a county shall hold office until he dies, resigns, or is removed from office.

(2) Every county manager for a county (other than the county of Dublin) shall be paid by the council of that county such remuneration as the Minister shall from time to time direct, and the moneys required for the payment of such remuneration shall be raised by such council as a county-at-large charge.

(3) Where the county manager for a county (other than the county of Dublin) or the city manager of a county borough (other than the county borough of Dublin) is also the manager for a joint body, such joint body shall pay annually to the council of such county or the corporation of such county borough (as the case may be) such sum in respect of expenses incurred by such council in respect of such county manager or by such corporation in respect of such city manager as the Minister shall direct.

(4) The payments to be made by a joint body to the council of a county or the corporation of a county borough in pursuance of the next preceding sub-section of this section shall be raised and defrayed by such joint body in the like manner as the salaries of the officers of such joint body are raised and defrayed.