23Nominations of candidates for Advisory Committee, Minister may request

23. Nominations of candidates for Advisory Committee, Minister may request

Where a body has, by virtue of section 21, the right to submit to the Minister a panel of the names of persons to be considered for selection and appointment to the membership of the Committee the Minister may, as the occasion requires, by notice in writing to a responsible officer of that body request that body to submit those names within such period of not less than 30 days as is therein specified and if upon the expiration of that period no person, or no suitable person, is so nominated the Minister may appoint to membership of the Committee such person as, having regard to the interests in respect of which the person was to be so nominated, the Minister thinks fit.