Children Act, 2001

Membership, etc., of Board.

230.—(1) The Board shall consist of a chairperson and 12 other members, who shall be appointed to be members of the Board by the Minister and who shall hold and vacate office, subject to subsection (4), on such terms and conditions as the Ministers, with the consent of the Minister for Finance, may determine.

(2) (a)  The Minister shall, from time to time as occasion requires, appoint a member of the Board to be its chairperson.

(b)  Where the chairperson ceases during his or her term of office as such chairperson to be a member of the Board, he or she shall thereupon cease to be its chairperson.

(c)  The chairperson shall, unless he or she sooner dies, resigns, becomes disqualified or is removed from office as chairperson, hold office as such chairperson until his or her term of office as a member of the Board expires but, if reappointed as such member, he or she shall be eligible for reappointment as chairperson.

(3) The members of the Board shall include:

(a) three representatives of the children detention schools, nominated by the Minister for Education and Science,

(b) three representatives of the chief executive officers of health boards,

(c) three experts in child care,

(d) three experts in the educational needs of detained children, nominated by the Minister for Education and Science, of whom one shall be a member of the school attendance service, and

(e) a probation and welfare officer nominated by the principal probation and welfare officer.

(4) The term of office of the chairperson and other members of the Board shall be for not more than 4 years and each member shall be eligible for reappointment.

(5) The Board shall determine its own procedure.

(6) Each member of the Board shall act on a part-time basis except where the Minister, with the consent of the Minister for Finance, on being satisfied that it is necessary to do so in the interests of the proper functioning of the Board, appoints any such member or members to act on a full-time basis on such terms and conditions as the Minister may determine.