City and County Management (Amendment) Act, 1955
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Deputy managers. |
18.—(1) (a) Where a manager will for any reason, other than suspension from performance of his duties, be temporarily unable to act as such, he may, after consultation with the appropriate person, appoint a person to be deputy manager for the duration of such inability. | |
(b) Where a manager has for any reason become temporarily unable to act as such and either he has not made an appointment under this section or an appointment made under this section, whether by such manager or otherwise, has become terminated under subsection (4) of this section or on account of the death or resignation of the appointee, the appropriate person may appoint a person to be deputy manager for the remainder of the duration of such inability. | ||
(2) (a) The Minister may, in respect of a specified person, authorise his being appointed from time to time under subsection (1) of this section to be a specified deputy manager, and may at any time revoke such authorisation. | ||
(b) Where an appointment under subsection (1) of this section is not authorised in accordance with paragraph (a) of this subsection it shall not have effect unless and until it is approved of by the Minister. | ||
(c) On receipt from the Minister of an authorisation, revocation or approval under this subsection, notice of the authorisation, revocation or approval shall be sent to every member of every local authority concerned. | ||
(3) The Minister may himself appoint a person to be deputy manager if— | ||
(a) he refuses to approve of an appointment under subsection (1) of this section, or | ||
(b) a manager is for any reason temporarily unable to act as such and an appointment under subsection (1) of this section is not for the time being in force. | ||
(4) The Minister, or the appropriate person with the consent of the Minister, may at any time terminate the appointment of a deputy manager. | ||
(5) A deputy manager shall, during the continuance of the inability of the manager for whom he was appointed as deputy or until his appointment is sooner terminated under subsection (4) of this section or on account of death or resignation, act as such manager and, for that purpose, a reference in any provision made by or under this or any other Act to a manager shall be construed, where appropriate, as a reference to the deputy manager. | ||
(6) (a) In the case of the Corporation of Dublin and the council of the county of Dublin and before the commencement of an order under section 14 of this Act, the same person shall be appointed under this section in relation to each of them. | ||
(b) In the case of two grouped counties, the same person shall be appointed under this section in relation to each of them. | ||
(7) In this section “appropriate person” means— | ||
(a) in the case, before the commencement of an order under section 14 of this Act, of the Dublin Corporation or the council of the county of Dublin—either the Lord Mayor of Dublin or the chairman of the council of the county of Dublin, as the Minister directs, | ||
(b) in the case, after the commencement of an order under section 14 of this Act, of the Dublin Corporation—the Lord Mayor of Dublin, | ||
(c) in the case of the corporation of a county borough other than the Dublin Corporation—the Lord Mayor or Mayor of the county borough, | ||
(d) in the case of each of two grouped counties—the chairman of such one of the councils of the counties as the Minister directs, and | ||
(e) in any other case—the chairman of the council of the county. |