3(1)The members of the Mental Nurses Committee holding office at the date of the passing of this Act shall vacate office, if they were appointed by the Secretary of State, on the expiry of a term of three years commencing on the first day of March, nineteen hundred and fifty-one, and, in any other case, on the expiry of a term of five years commencing on the last-mentioned date; and the successors in office of all the members of the Committee shall hold office for a term of five years.
(2)A member of the Committee appointed by the Council shall cease to hold office as such member if he ceases to be a member of the Council.