http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1967/22/schedule/5

SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 5 Rural Development Boards

Part II Constitution and Procedure of Boards

1

A Rural Development Board shall consist of not less than six nor more than twelve members appointed by the appropriate Minister of whom more than half shall be appointed as having had experience of, and shown capacity in, or otherwise as having special knowledge of, agriculture or forestry.

2

The Board shall have a chairman and deputy chairman appointed by the appropriate Minister from among the members of the Board.

3

The Board shall pay to the members of the Board such travelling or other allowances as the appropriate Minister, with the approval of F1the Minister for the Civil Service, may determine, and in the case of any member of the Board as respects whom the appropriate Minister, with the approval of F1The Minister for the Civil Service, so determines—

a

may pay such remuneration, whether by way of salary or fees, as the appropriate Minister and the Treasury may determine in his case, and

b

may pay such pension, or make such payments towards the provision of a pension, to or in respect of him as the appropriate Minister and F1the Minister for the Civil Service may determine in his case,

and if a person ceases to be a member of a Board and it appears to the appropriate Minister that there are special circumstances which make it right that that person should receive compensation, the Board may, with the approval of F1the Minister for the Civil Service, pay to that person a sum of such amount as the appropriate Minister may with the approval of the Treasury determine.