The Joint Consultative Committees Order 1996

Appointment of members by voluntary organisations

7.—(1) The Secretary of State shall, after consultation with each body represented, or to be represented, on a Committee, invite any voluntary organisation which appears to him to have an interest in any services of common concern to those bodies—

(a) to make application to take part in the appointment of members to the Committee; and

(b) to nominate a person for appointment to the Committee.

(2) A voluntary organisation may nominate any person, whether he is a member of such an organisation or not, for appointment to the Committee, but no organisation may nominate more than one person.

(3) The Secretary of State shall, not less than one month after applications and nominations have been invited in accordance with paragraph (1), determine which voluntary organisations are to take part in making the appointment of members to the Committee.

(4) The Secretary of State shall arrange for a ballot to be held among the voluntary organisations which are to take part in making the appointments, for the election, from among the persons nominated by those organisations, of—

(a) the persons to be appointed as members of the Committee; and

(b) not less than three other persons who, in the event of a vacancy arising before the term of office of any of those members expires, would be eligible to fill the vacancy.

(5) The Secretary of State shall, as soon as is practicable after the ballot has taken place, notify the voluntary organisations invited to take part in making the appointments of—

(a) the names of the persons elected for the purpose of paragraph (4)(a); and

(b) the names of the persons who would be eligible for appointment in the event of a vacancy, and the order in which those persons succeeded in the ballot.