Special Committee Pigs and Bacon Bill, 1934 díospóireacht -
Wednesday, 10 Apr 1935

SECTION 80.

(g) no person shall be qualified to be elected an ordinary member or a substitutive member at such meeting unless he has been nominated in writing as a candidate by at least two electors, and the nomination paper has not later than the end of the third day before the day fixed for the meeting been received by the Minister;

(h) where no more candidates are duly nominated than the number of vacancies, those candidates shall be declared elected ;

(j) immediately after such meeting the chairman shall send to the Minister a return showing the names of the persons elected as ordinary members and substitutive members at each election and such return shall be conclusive evidence of the election of such persons;

(k) if the electors who attend such meeting fail to elect at any such election the number of persons required by this Part of this Act to be elected at such election, or if none of the electors attend such meeting, the Minister shall, as soon as may be, nominate that number or such less number as the circumstances require of persons willing to act as ordinary members or substitutive members (as the case may be) and the persons so nominated shall for all purposes be deemed to have been duly elected at such meeting as ordinary members or substitutive members (as the case may be).

Minister for Agriculture

I move amendment No. 54 :—

In paragraph (g), page 40, line 56, to delete the words " at least two electors " and to substitute the words " an elector."

Two curers might not agree. One of them might say " I will not second your man, " and the other might say, " I will not second yours."

Deputy Dillon

It is only a question of nomination.

Amendment agreed to.

Amendment No. 55, by leave, withdrawn.

Section 80 agreed to.

Amendment No. 56, by leave, withdrawn.

Section 81 agreed to.

Amendments Nos. 57 and 58, by leave, withdrawn.

Section 82 agreed to