SCHEDULE 2APPOINTMENT OF MEMBERS OF THE BOARD

(introduced by section 6(3))

1

The Clerk must make arrangements for selecting candidates for appointment as Chair, and as other members of the Board.

2

Those arrangements may—

a

be revised from time to time, and

b

make different provision for different appointments and for appointments made under different circumstances.

3

The Clerk must ensure that those arrangements—

a

do not involve participation by any person who appears to the Clerk to be likely to be affected by the exercise by the Board of any of its functions, or any person connected with such a person, and

b

subject to sub-paragraph (a), have due regard to the principle that there should be equality of opportunity for all people.

4

The Clerk must not give effect to the arrangements in relation to a particular appointment unless they have first been published on the F2Senedd's website and continue to be so published whilst the process of selecting a person for that appointment is taking place.

5

The F1Senedd Commission must appoint as Chair, or as a member of the Board, as the case may be, any person selected, in accordance with such arrangements, for appointment to that office.

6

Paragraph 5 does not apply if it appears to the F1Senedd Commission that the person in question is disqualified from membership of the Board under section 4.