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(1)The Director shall establish committees, to be known as consumers' committees, for the purposes of this Part.
(2)Each consumers' committee shall be appointed for an area consisting of—
(a)the authorised area of a public electricity supplier; or
(b)if the Secretary of State so determines, the authorised areas of two or more such suppliers;
and any reference in this Part to the allocation of a public electricity supplier to a consumers' committee shall be construed accordingly.
(3)Each consumers' committee shall consist of—
(a)a chairman appointed by the Director after consultation with the Secretary of State; and
(b)such other members, not being less than ten or more than twenty, as the Director after consultation with the chairman may from time to time appoint.
(4)An appointment of a person to hold office as the chairman of a consumers' committee shall be for a term not exceeding four years.
(5)Subject to subsection (4) above, the chairman and other members of a consumers' committee shall hold and vacate office in accordance with the terms of the instruments appointing them and shall, on ceasing to hold office, be eligible for re-appointment.
(6)The provisions of Schedule 2 to this Act shall have effect with respect to each of the consumers' committees.
(7)In this Part “public electricity supplier” and “authorised area”, in relation to such a supplier, have the meanings given by section 6(9) below.
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