Currency Act, 1927

The ordinary Commissioners.

18.—(1) Of the ordinary Commissioners, three (in this Act referred to as elected Commissioners) shall be elected in accordance with this Act by representatives of the Shareholding Banks and three (in this Act referred to as nominated Commissioners) shall be nominated in accordance with this Act by the Minister.

(2) Two of the nominated Commissioners shall be persons who are representative of or experienced in business, industry, or trade and are not in the permanent service of the State, and the other nominated Commissioner may, at the discretion of the Minister be a person who is in or a person who is not in the permanent service of the State and shall, if but only if the Minister when nominating him so directs, hold office at the pleasure of the Minister.

(3) Every ordinary Commissioner shall receive such remuneration and allowances and be subject to such conditions of service as the Minister shall from time to time determine having regard to the prevailing standards of the Shareholding Banks in fixing the remuneration, allowances, and conditions of service of their directors.

(4) Every ordinary Commissioner shall be ordinarily resident in Saorstát Eireann and a person who is not so resident shall not be eligible for nomination or appointment as an ordinary Commissioner.

(5) An ordinary Commissioner shall while he holds that office be disqualified from being nominated or elected and from sitting or receiving payment as a member of Dáil Eireann or Seanad Eireann.

(6) A nominated Commissioner shall while he holds that office be ineligible for election as a director of any Bank whatsoever and shall, if at the time of his nomination he is a director of any Bank whatsoever, divest himself of such directorship within ten days after his nomination, and if he fails so to do he shall at the expiration of such ten days be disqualified from holding the office of nominated Commissioner.