Article 4 Appointment and terms of office of first Commissioners

(1)

The first appointments under article 3(1)(a) above shall be made before 1st July 2004.

(2)

The Commissioners shall appoint the person who is, at the date when they make the first appointments referred to in paragraph (1) above, the chairman of the Commissioners to be one of the first such appointed Commissioners and he shall hold office as a Commissioner from the new constitution date until 31st December 2006; and on and after the new constitution date shall be the chairman of the Commissioners.

(3)

Of the remaining first such appointed Commissioners—

(a)

two shall hold office from the new constitution date until 3lst December 2005;

(b)

not fewer than one nor more than two shall hold office from the new constitution date until 3lst December 2006;

(c)

not fewer than two nor more than four shall hold office from the new constitution date until 3lst December 2007;

as the Commissioners shall specify when they make each of those appointments.