No. 49/1931:

ORDER REDUCING THE MEMBERSHIP OF THE RAILWAY TRIBUNAL.

ORDER REDUCING THE MEMBERSHIP OF THE RAILWAY TRIBUNAL.

WHEREAS it is enacted by sub-section (1) of section 3 of the Railways (Amendment) Act, 1929 (No. 23 of 1929), that the Governor-General may, by order made on the advice of the Executive Council at any time while there are three standing members of the Railway Tribunal, declare that it is expedient in the public interest that on the expiration of the terms of office then current of the ordinary members of the Railway Tribunal, no appointment of ordinary members of the Railway Tribunal should be made, and that (without prejudice to the provisions of sub-section (4) of section 17 of the Railways Act, 1924 (No. 29 of 1924),) the Railway Tribunal should consist of the Chairman alone :

AND WHEREAS the terms of office now current of the ordinary members of the Railway Tribunal will expire on the 25th day of September, 1931.

NOW, I, JAMES McNEILL, Governor-General of the Irish Free State, acting on the advice of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State, do hereby declare that it is expedient in the public interest that on the expiration of the terms of office now current of the ordinary members of the Railway Tribunal no appointment of ordinary members of the Railway Tribunal should be made and that (without prejudice to the provisions of sub-section (4) of section 17 of the Railways Act, 1924 (No. 29 of 1924),) the Railway Tribunal should consist of the Chairman alone.

Given under my hand and sealed with the great Seal of the Irish Free State, this 11th day of August, 1931.

JAMES McNEILL,

Governor-General.