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Membership of Board and term of office of members.
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14.—(1) The Board shall consist of the following members, that is to say, a chairman and nine ordinary members or such greater number of ordinary members not exceeding eleven as the Minister may prescribe.
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(2) The chairman of the Board shall be appointed by the Minister.
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(3) The ordinary members of the Board shall be appointed by the Minister, one of whom shall be an officer of the Minister.
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(4) One ordinary member shall be appointed on the nomination of the Minister for Tourism and Trade.
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(5) The chairman and the persons appointed to be ordinary members shall be persons having knowledge or experience of the food industry and of consumer requirements.
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(6) The chairman shall hold office for the period of three years from the date of his appointment.
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(7) The persons who are first appointed by the Minister to be ordinary members of the Board shall hold office as follows:
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(a) three of such members shall hold office for the period of three years from the date of their appointment,
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(b) three of such members shall hold office for the period of four years from the date of their appointment, and
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(c) the remaining members shall hold office for the period of five years from the date of their appointment.
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(8) The members of the Board who are to hold office for the periods specified in paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection (7) shall be decided by lot to be drawn in such manner as may be decided by the Minister.
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(9) Every person who is appointed by the Minister pursuant to this section to be an ordinary member of the Board, other than a first member of the Board, shall hold office for the period of three years from the date of his appointment.
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