Section 164 of the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 – Mediators and adjudicators

(1)The Board may from time to time appoint such and so many persons who shall be known and are in this Act referred to as “mediators” to carry out the functions assigned to them by the Board in accordance with Part 6.

(2)The Board may from time to time appoint such and so many persons who shall be known and are in this Act referred to as “adjudicators” to carry out the functions assigned to them by the Board in accordance with Part 6.

(3)The Board may appoint a person as both a mediator and an adjudicator.

(4)The Board shall form 2 panels, one comprising the names of the persons who stand appointed as mediators and the other comprising the names of the persons who stand appointed as adjudicators.

(5)Mediators and adjudicators shall each be appointed for such period (not being less than 3 years) as the Board may determine and shall be paid such fees and expenses as the Board, with the consent of the Minister and of the Minister for Finance, may determine from time to time; the other terms and conditions on which each of them shall stand appointed shall be such as the Board may determine from time to time.

(6)Those other terms and conditions shall, in relation to adjudicators, include such terms and conditions as are likely, in the opinion of the Board, to secure the independence and impartiality of the adjudicators.

(7)A mediator or adjudicator may at any time resign from his or her appointment as mediator or adjudicator.

(8)Neither the Civil Service Commissioners Act 1956 (or any enactment that replaces in whole or in part that Act) nor the Civil Service Regulation Acts 1956 to 1996 shall apply to a mediator or an adjudicator.