The Fraserburgh Harbour Revision (Constitution) Order 2012

Casual vacancies

6.—(1) Subject to the provisions of paragraph (2) of this article, if a Commissioner refuses to accept office, or dies or resigns, or is no longer an employee, or becomes incapable of acting, whether a Commissioner elected under the provisions of the 2001 Order or appointed under the provisions of that Order or this Order, or if the appointing body select fewer applicants to become Commissioners than there are vacancies, the resulting vacancy or vacancies shall be filled in the manner following—

(a) the Commissioners shall fill the vacancy by co-opting as a Commissioner a person whom they consider to be suitable to act as a Commissioner having regard to the considerations in article 5(5), and the Commissioner so substituted shall continue in office for the period that the person in whose place the co-opted Commissioner is appointed (or would have been appointed) would in the ordinary course have continued in office;

(b) at the end of such period the co-opted Commissioner shall go out of office but shall be eligible for re-appointment.

(2) Any casual vacancy occurring four months or less before the end of the vacating Commissioner’s normal term of office may, at the discretion of the remaining Commissioners, be left unfilled for the remainder of that term of office.