Agricultural Wages Act, 1936

Nomination and term of office of ordinary members of the Board.

7.—(1) The Minister shall before the commencement of this Act nominate eleven persons to be ordinary members of the Board and each of the persons so nominated is in this section referred to as a first ordinary member.

(2) The Minister shall in each nomination year nominate eleven persons to be ordinary members of the Board.

(3) Every first ordinary member shall, unless he sooner dies, resigns, or becomes disqualified, hold office from the date of the commencement of this Act until the 31st day of December, 1939.

(4) Every ordinary member (other than a first ordinary member or a person appointed to fill a casual vacancy of the Board) shall, unless he sooner dies, resigns, or becomes disqualified, hold office for a period of three years from the 1st day of January next following the nomination year in which he was nominated.

(5) An ordinary member of the Board retiring on the expiration by effluxion of time of his term of office shall be eligible for renomination.

(6) For the purposes of this section each of the following years shall be a nomination year, that is to say, the year 1939, the year 1942, the year 1945, and so on.