Health (Removal of Officers and Servants) Regulations, 1971

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Citation: IR SI 110/1971
• Year: 1971

S.I. No. 110 of 1971.

HEALTH (REMOVAL OF OFFICERS AND SERVANTS) REGULATIONS, 1971.

The Minister for Health, inexercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 23 (5), 24 (3) and 24 (8) and (10), of the Health Act, 1970 , (No. 1 of 1970 ), hereby makes the following Regulations: 1. These Regulations may be cited as the Health (Removal of Officers and Servants) Regulations, 1971. 2. In these Regulations—

"the Act" means the Health Act, 1970 .

"the Minister" means the Minister for Health.

"committee" means a committee appointed under section 24 (1) of the Health Act, 1970 . 3. These Regulations shall come into operation on 1 May, 1971. 4. (1) Whenever it is proposed to remove an officer or servant of a health board from being such officer or servant, the officer or servant shall be given notice in writing by the chief executive officer or an officer authorised to act on his behalf—

(a) of the intention to remove;

(b) of the reasons for such removal;

(c) that the chief executive officer will consider any representations made by him or on his behalf before the expiration of seven days after the giving of such notice;

(d) of details of any proposal to appoint him to another office or employment.

(2) Effect shall not be given to any proposal for removal until notice of the intention to remove has been given in accordance with sub-article (1) of this article and until any representations made by or on behalf of the officer or servant have been considered.

(3) Notice under sub-article (1) of this article shall be sent to the officer or servant by delivering it to him or by leaving it at the address last notified by him to the health board as his address or by sending it by post in a prepaid registered letter to that address.

(4) (i) Nominations of persons to the first panel established under section 24 (2) (b) of the Act shall be for the period commencing on 1 May, 1971, and ending on 30 June, 1972.

(ii) Nominations of persons to be the second and subsequent panels established under section 24 (2) (b) of the Act shall be for the period commencing on 1 July in any year in which a quinquennial election of members of local authorities appointing members to a health board is held and ending on 30 June in the next year in which such a quinquennial election is held.

(5) The chairman of a committee shall convene the first meeting of the committee not less than ten days after the committee is established.

(6) During the conduct...