Children's Health Act 2018

Casual vacancies

15. (1) Subject to subsection (3), where a member of the Board dies, resigns, or ceases to hold office for any reason, the Minister shall appoint a person to fill the resulting casual vacancy so occasioned in the same manner as the member who occasioned the casual vacancy was appointed.

(2) A person who fills or occasions a casual vacancy shall be considered to have served a term as a member of a Board even though he or she will have served only part of a term.

(3) A casual vacancy arising on the Board appointed under section 13 or on a Board appointed under section 18 , shall be filled on the nomination of the Board alternating with a person chosen by the Minister, beginning with a nomination of the Board and subject to there being no more than 4 persons chosen by the Minister on the Board.