7(1)Where a person is suspended from office as the chair under paragraph 5(4), the Secretary of State may appoint a non-executive member as interim chair to exercise the chair’s functions.
(2)Appointment as interim chair is for a term not exceeding the shorter of—
(a)the period ending with either—
(i)the appointment of a new chair, or
(ii)the revocation or expiry of the existing chair’s suspension, and
(b)the remainder of the interim chair’s term as a non-executive member.
(3)Sub-paragraph (4) applies if—
(a)a person’s initial term as interim chair is to cease as a result of the expiry of the person’s initial term as a non-executive member, and
(b)that person is to be re-appointed as a non-executive member.
(4)The person may be re-appointed as interim chair for a further term determined in accordance with sub-paragraph (2).
(5)That further term must begin at the end of the person’s initial term as interim chair.