Financial Intermediaries Act 1996

The board of a society must appoint an individual who is 18 or more and who is resident in the State to be the secretary of the society.

If the office of secretary is vacant or for some other reason the secretary is not capable of acting, an act or thing required or authorised to be done by or in relation to the secretary may be done by or in relation to an assistant or deputy secretary or, if there is no assistant or deputy secretary or no assistant or deputy secretary is capable of acting, by or in relation to an officer of the society authorised by the directors to act as secretary either generally or in relation to the doing of the act or thing.

A provision of this Act or the rules requiring or authorising an act or thing to be done by or in relation to a director and the secretary is not satisfied by its being done by or in relation to the same person acting both as director and as, or in place of, the secretary.