Local Government Act, 2001
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Chapter 2 Position of Manager | ||
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Position of manager. |
144.—(1) For every county and city there shall be a manager to be known as “the ....... County Manager” or “the ....... City Manager”, as appropriate (with the name of the county or city prefixed) who shall hold employment under that county council or city council, as the case may be. | |
(2) Any function which immediately before the commencement of this provision is, by virtue of any enactment a function of the town clerk of a city shall, on and from such commencement, vest in and be a function of the manager of the local authority concerned. | ||
(3) A county manager shall by virtue of his or her position be the manager— | ||
(a) for every town council the administrative area of which is situated within the county concerned, and | ||
(b) for every joint body whose functional area is wholly situated within such county. | ||
(4) Where the functional area of a joint body extends into 2 or more counties or into a city and one or more counties, then such county or city manager as the Minister shall by order appoint shall also be the manager for such joint body. | ||
(5) Where immediately before the commencement of this provision an order is in force under section 8(1) of the County Management Act, 1940 , appointing a manager for a joint body, such order shall be deemed to have been made under subsection (4). | ||
(6) Any person who immediately before the commencement of this provision held either in a temporary or permanent capacity the office of county or city manager or whose tenure as manager is governed by section 147 shall, on and from such commencement, continue to be a temporary manager or a manager, as the case may be, within the meaning and for the purposes of this Part. | ||
(7) The Minister may prescribe by regulations any body to be a joint body and any body so prescribed shall be a joint body for the purposes of this section. | ||
(8) The position of manager is, subject to section 145 , an office to which the Local Authorities (Officers and Employees) Act, 1926 , applies. | ||
(9) A reference in any enactment to a manager for a local authority or to any cognate expression shall be read as a reference to a manager for a local authority for the purposes of this section. |