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Membership, etc., of boards of management.
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167.—(1) Each board of management shall consist of a chairperson and 12 other members.
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(2) (a) The Minister shall from time to time as occasion requires appoint a member of a board of management to be its chairperson.
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(b) Where the chairperson ceases during his or her term of office to be a member of the board, he or she shall thereupon also cease to be its chairperson.
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(c) The chairperson shall, unless he or she sooner dies, resigns, becomes disqualified or is removed from office, hold office as such chairperson until his or her term of office as a member of the board expires but, if reappointed as such a member, he or she shall be eligible for reappointment as chairperson.
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(3) In appointing persons to be members of a board of management, the Minister shall have regard to the desirability of their having knowledge or experience of matters that come within the competence of such a board in the performance of its functions.
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(4) Of the members of each board of management at least—
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(a) one shall be an officer of the Minister,
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(b) one shall be an officer of a health board nominated by the Minister for Health and Children,
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(c) one shall be an officer of the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform nominated by that Minister,
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(d) two shall be members of the staff of the children detention school or schools under the board's management, and
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(e) two shall be representative of persons living in the area of one or more than one of such schools.
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(5) Members of a board of management shall be appointed for a term not exceeding 4 years and shall be eligible for reappointment.
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(6) Members of a board of management shall act on a part-time basis.
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