Institutional Burials Act 2022
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Member ceasing to be member of Advisory Board | ||
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17. (1) A member of an Advisory Board may resign from the Board by notice in writing to the relevant Minister and the resignation shall take effect on the date on which the relevant Minister receives the notice, or, if a date is specified in the notice and the relevant Minister agrees that the resignation shall take effect from the date specified, that date. | ||
(2) A relevant Minister may at any time remove a member of an Advisory Board from office if, in the opinion of the Minister— | ||
(a) the member has become incapable through ill-health of performing the functions of the office, | ||
(b) the member has committed stated misbehaviour, or | ||
(c) the member’s removal appears to the Minister to be necessary for the effective performance by the Board of its functions. | ||
(3) Where a member of an Advisory Board dies, resigns, is removed from office or otherwise ceases to hold office— | ||
(a) the casual vacancy arising shall be filled by a person appointed in the same manner as the member of the Board who occasioned the vacancy was appointed, and | ||
(b) the person appointed to fill the casual vacancy shall hold office for that period of the term of office of the member who occasioned that vacancy that remains unexpired at the date of that person’s appointment, and may, in accordance with section 16 (3)(b), have his or her appointment extended. |