22. (1) Where a director of the Board or a subsidiary DAC or the chief executive is—

(a) nominated as a member of Seanad Éireann,

(b) elected to either House of the Oireachtas or to be a representative in the European Parliament,

(c) regarded, pursuant to Part XIII of the Second Schedule to the European Parliament Elections Act 1997, as having been elected to that Parliament, or

(d) elected or coopted to be a member of a local authority,

he or she shall thereupon cease to be a director of the Board or a subsidiary DAC or the chief executive, as the case may be.

(2) Where a member of staff of the Agency or a subsidiary DAC is—

(a) nominated as a member of Seanad Éireann,

(b) elected to either House of the Oireachtas or to be a representative in the European Parliament,

(c) regarded, pursuant to Part XIII of the Second Schedule to the European Parliament Elections Act 1997, as having been elected to that Parliament, or

(d) elected or coopted to be a member of a local authority,

he or she shall thereupon stand seconded from employment by the Agency or subsidiary DAC and shall not be paid by, or be entitled to receive from, the Agency or subsidiary DAC any remuneration or allowances in respect of the period commencing on such nomination or election, or when he or she is so regarded as having been so elected, as the case may be, and ending when such person ceases to be a member of either such House, a representative in such Parliament, or a member of local government.

(3) A person who is for the time being entitled under the Standing Orders of either House of the Oireachtas to sit therein or who is a representative in the European Parliament shall, while he or she is so entitled or is such a representative, be disqualified from being a director of the Board or a subsidiary DAC, the chief executive or a member of the staff of the Agency or subsidiary DAC.