Civil Service (Transferred Officers) Compensation Act, 1929

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Removal of members of officers' panel on petition.

7.—(1) If and whenever a petition signed by not less than five hundred transferred officers in the employment of the Government of Saorstát Eireann praying for the removal from the officers' panel of one or more (but not more than five at any one time) named members of that panel is presented to the Board, the Board shall forthwith remove from the officers' panel the members of that panel named in such petition.

(2) Whenever a member of the officers' panel is removed under this section the Board shall as soon as conveniently may be appoint a transferred officer in the employment of the Government of Saorstát Eireann nominated by the Chairman after consultation with an organisation recognised by him as representing the transferred officers to be a member of the officers' panel to fill the vacancy occasioned by such removal.

(3) The removal of a member of the officers' panel under this section shall not constitute a casual vacancy within the meaning of the next preceding section of this Act.

(4) In this section the expression “transferred officer in the employment of the Government of Saorstát Eireann” includes the persons included in that expression for the purposes of the next preceding section of this Act.