resignation. No statement of acceptance shall be necessary for the validity of the resignation.
(3) If the Vice President of the Authority fails to terminate a conflict of interest pursuant to Section
41 within thirty days of his or her appointment or if, in the course of the exercise of his or her
office, a conflict of interest arises, the President of the Authority shall decide on the establishment
of a conflict of interest.
(4) The President of the Authority shall dismiss the Vice President of the Authority if, for reasons
not imputable to him or her, the Vice President of the Authority is not able to perform the duties
deriving from his or her mandate for more than ninety days.
(5) The President of the Authority may dismiss the Vice President of the Authority; at the same time
the Vice President of the Authority shall be offered a position as a public servant at the Authority,
and – even in the absence of the conditions laid down in subsection (1) of Section 51 – the position
of an inquirer.
(6) The President of the Authority shall remove the Vice President of the Authority from office if,
for reasons imputable to him or her, the Vice President of the Authority fails to perform the duties
deriving from his or her mandate for more than ninety days or if he or she deliberately makes a false
declaration on important data or facts in his or her declaration of assets.
(7) The absence of conditions necessary for the appointment of the Vice President of the Authority
shall be established by the President of the Authority.
(8) In the event of termination of the mandate pursuant to subsection (1)(a) or (f), the Vice President
of the Authority shall be entitled to an additional payment three times the amount of his or her
monthly salary at the time of termination.
29. Staff of the Authority
Section 50
The employer’s rights over the public servants and employees of the Authority shall be exercised by
the President of the Authority.
Section 51
(1) The President of the Authority may appoint inquirers, up to twenty per cent of the number of
public servants of the Authority, from among those public servants of the Authority who have a
higher education degree in informatics or law and have held for at least three years the post of data
protection expert or data protection officer, and who have passed a Hungarian professional
examination in public administration or a Hungarian professional examination in law.
(2) The mandate of an inquirer shall be given for an indefinite period of time, and it shall be
revocable by the President of the Authority at any time without justification. If the President of the
Authority revokes the mandate of an inquirer, the public servant in question shall be reinstated in
the position he or she last held before being given the mandate of an inquirer.
(3) Inquirers shall be entitled to the salary of a head of unit without managerial allowance.
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PROCEDURES OF THE AUTHORITY
30. Investigation of the Authority
Section 52
(1) Anyone is entitled to request an investigation from the Authority, on the grounds of infringement
of law, in connection with the control of personal data, as well as exercising rights relating to access
to data of public interest or data public on grounds of public interest, or in the event of such
immediate threat to the above.