The Valuation Tribunals (Wales) Regulations 1995

Duration of membership

4.—(1) Each appointment of a member shall, subject to regulation 14(1), have effect for such period not exceeding six years as the council or person making the appointment may specify after consultation with the president of the tribunal or, before the first appointment of a president, with the president of the relevant old tribunal.

(2) Each member shall hold office until whichever of the following first occurs—

(a) the period specified under paragraph (1) expires;

(b) notice of his removal under paragraph (3) takes effect;

(c) he becomes disqualified from membership as provided in regulation 7;

(d) he attains the age of 72 years;

(e) he resigns the office by notice in writing to the president.

(3) The appointing council by which any member was appointed shall, if so directed by the Secretary of State after consultation with the council and with the president, by notice in writing give that member such period of notice of termination of office under this paragraph as may be so directed.

(4) Where a member is appointed a president or chairman of a tribunal in accordance with these Regulations and the duration of his membership of the tribunal would end by the application of paragraph (2)(a), his membership shall continue, except for the purposes of regulations 5(2), 6(2) and 6(12), for a period which ends with the expiration of the prescribed period for the election of a president to fill the vacancy under regulation 5, or of a chairman to fill the vacancy under regulation 6, as the case may be, or when such an election of a president, or chairman, takes place, as the case may be, whichever is the earlier, in this regulation referred to as the “interim period”.

(5) Where a president’s or chairman’s membership continues during the interim period in accordance with paragraph (4), a vacancy shall arise for the purposes of these Regulations in the case of a president for a member, a chairman and a president, and in the case of a chairman for a member and a chairman, from the expiration of the period referred to in paragraph (2)(a) and, in particular, from that date that president or chairman shall not by virtue of the operation of this paragraph constitute one of the number of members determined in accordance with regulation 3(2), or one of the number of members to be appointed chairman determined in accordance with regulation 6(1).