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PART VI.
Staff of the Board.
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Appointment of officers and servants of the Board.
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35.—(1) The Board shall appoint a general manager and a secretary and such other officers and servants as the Board may determine, and their remuneration shall be paid by the Board out of funds at its disposal.
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(2) (a) Save as is hereinafter provided in this subsection, entry to the clerical grades of the service of the Board shall be by means of open competitive examination in accordance with rules made by the Board.
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(b) Irish shall be a compulsory subject at every open competitive examination held in pursuance of this subsection.
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(c) Every open competitive examination held in pursuance of this subsection shall be open to all persons who are ordinarily resident within the national territory or who are Irish citizens or the children of Irish citizens and who pay the fees and possess the qualifications as to age, health and character prescribed by the rules relating to the examination.
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(d) The Board may by special rules provide that such proportion as may be approved by the Minister of the vacancies in the clerical grades of its service shall be filled by means of limited competitive examinations, and where an examination is so limited only persons in or who have been in the employment of a dissolved company within the meaning of the Act of 1944, a dissolved undertaker, the Board, or any other transport undertaker whose undertaking has been acquired by the Board under this Act or the children of such persons shall be admitted thereto.
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(e) Any regulations or special regulations, which were made by Córas Iompair Éireann (1945) under section 47 of the Act of 1944 or deemed, by virtue of subsection (5) of the said section 47, to have been made by Córas Iompair Éireann (1945) under the said section 47 and which were in force immediately before the establishment date, shall continue in force and apply to the Board and be deemed to be rules made by the Board under this subsection.
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