Fisheries Act (Northern Ireland) 1966

[F1 3 (1) Subject to the following provisions of this paragraph—

(a) the chairman, the deputy chairman and the persons appointed to the Board under heads (f) to (k) of paragraph 2(2) shall hold office for such period as the Head of the Department may determine; and

(b) all other members of the Board shall hold office for a period of six years.

(2) When appointments are first made to the Board after the coming into operation of Article 4 of the Fisheries (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 1983—

(a) two of the persons appointed under head (a) of paragraph 2(2);

(b) one of the persons appointed under head (c) of paragraph 2(2);

(c) one of the persons appointed under head (d) of paragraph 2(2); and

(d) one of the persons appointed under head (e) of paragraph 2(2),

shall be appointed for a period of three years; but on any subsequent appointment to the Board under any of those heads the persons appointed shall hold office in accordance with sub-paragraph (1)(b).

(3) A person shall cease to be a member of the Board if—

(a) by notice in writing to the Head of the Department he resigns;

(b) he is on more than three consecutive occasions absent without permission of the chairman from meetings of the Board; or

(c) the Head of the Department, by notice in writing, removes him from office.

(4) A person shall, on ceasing to be a member, be eligible for reappointment.

(5) If a member of the Board dies or ceases to be a member before the expiration of the term for which he was appointed, the term of his successor shall be so fixed as to expire at the end of the first-mentioned term, but the Head of the Department may, if he thinks fit, defer the making of an appointment until the expiration of the first-mentioned term.]

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