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33 1949

IRISH NEWS AGENCY ACT, 1949

PART III.

The Advisory Board.

Establishment, appointment and functions of the Advisory Board.

18. —(1) The Minister may by order establish a board (in this section referred to as the Advisory Board) to advise and assist the Agency in the conduct of its functions as and when requested by the Managing Director of the Agency.

(2) The Advisory Board shall consist of so many (not being more than seven) members as the Minister shall think proper and the members shall be appointed by the Minister.

(3) The members of the Advisory Board shall, to such extent as the Minister in his absolute discretion may consider advisable, include persons representative of newspaper editors, journalists, correspondents, broadcasting authorities and such other persons as the Minister may deem competent to advise the Agency.

(4) Each member of the Advisory Board shall, unless he sooner dies or resigns, retain his membership of the Board for one year from the date of his appointment and no longer but shall be eligible for reappointment.

(5) The remuneration, if any, of the members of the Advisory Board shall be determined from time to time by the Minister after consultation with the Minister for Finance.