Explanatory Notes

Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005

2005 CHAPTER 15

7th April 2005

The Act

Commentary on Sections

Schedule 1: The Serious Organised Crime Agency

Paragraphs 2-5: Tenure of office: chairman and ordinary members

70.The maximum term of appointment for the chairman or ordinary member is to be five years. A person may be re-appointed to either position as long as they have not previously been removed from office by the Secretary of State for any of the reasons in paragraph 4.