Casual vacancies
9.—(1) Subject to the provisions of paragraph (2) of this article, if a Commissioner refuses to accept office, or dies or resigns, or ceases to be qualified or becomes incapable of acting, the resulting vacancy shall be filled in manner following:—
(a)the Commissioners shall fill the vacancy by co-opting as a Commissioner any person duly qualified in accordance with the provisions of this Order, and the Commissioner so substituted shall continue in office for the period that the person in whose place the co-opted Commissioner is appointed would in the ordinary course have continued in office;
(b)at the end of such period the co-opted Commissioner shall go out of office but shall be eligible for re-election if qualified.
(2) Any casual vacancy occurring four months or less before the end of the vacating Commissioner’s normal term of office may, at the discretion of the remaining Commissioners, be left unfilled for the remainder of that term of office.