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PART III.
The Transport Advisory Committee.
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Establishment of the Transport Advisory Committee.
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63.—(1) On the establishment date there shall, by virtue of this subsection, be established a committee, which shall be styled the Transport Advisory Committee, to fulfil the functions assigned to it by this Act.
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(2) The Advisory Committee shall consist of five members, namely—
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(a) a chairman who shall be nominated by, and may be removed from office by, the Minister,
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(b) one ordinary member who shall be nominated by, and may be removed from office by, the Minister for Agriculture, and
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(c) three ordinary members who shall be nominated by, and may be removed from office by, the Minister.
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(3) Of the three ordinary members of the Advisory Committee to be nominated by the Minister, one shall be a person who, in the opinion of the Minister, is experienced in commercial and industrial affairs, a second shall be a person who, in the opinion of the Minister, is experienced in labour matters, and the third shall be a person who, in the opinion of the Minister, is experienced in transport affairs.
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(4) Every member of the Advisory Committee shall, unless he sooner dies, resigns or is removed from office, hold office for such period, not exceeding three years, as the Minister of State by whom he was nominated shall fix at the time of his nomination but shall be eligible for renomination.
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(5) Any member of the Advisory Committee may resign his office at any time.
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(6) There shall be paid out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas to the members of the Advisory Committee such remuneration and such travelling expenses, subsistence allowance and other expenses as the Minister, with the sanction of the Minister for Finance, may determine.
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(7) Whenever it appears to the Minister or the Minister for Agriculture that on account of ill-health or for other sufficient reason a member of the Advisory Committee nominated by that Minister is temporarily unable to discharge his duties as such member, that Minister may appoint a person to act as a member of the Advisory Committee for such period (not exceeding the duration of such inability) as he shall think proper and every person so appointed to act as a member of the Advisory Committee shall during the period for which he is so appointed be a member of the Advisory Committee in place of such first-mentioned member.
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(8) The proceedings of the Advisory Committee shall not be invalidated by any vacancy in their number.
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