Postal and Telecommunications Services Act, 1983

Users' Councils.

48.—(1) The Minister shall establish for each company a Council to be known as the Users' Council.

(2) Each Council shall consist of not less than 10 and not more than 20 members to be appointed by the Minister.

(3) Each appointment shall be for a period of not more than 3 years.

(4) A Council may settle its own rules of procedure.

(5) A person who is, for the time being, entitled under the Standing Orders of either House of the Oireachtas to sit therein as a member or who is a member of the Assembly of the European Communities shall, while he is so entitled or is such a member, be disqualified from becoming a member of a Council or a member of the staff of a Council.

(6) A member of a Council who is nominated as a member of Seanad Éireann or as a candidate for election to either House of the Oireachtas or to the Assembly of the European Communities or is appointed to such Assembly shall thereupon cease to be a member of the Council.

(7) A member of a Council may resign his office by letter addressed to the Minister and the resignation shall take effect on the date of receipt of the letter by the Minister.

(8) The Minister may remove a member of a Council from office.