Article 5 Appointment and terms of office of first Commissioners

(1)

The first appointments under article 4(1)(a) above shall be made before 1st September 2004.

(2)

The Commissioners shall appoint the person who is, at the date when they make the first appointments under paragraph (1) above, the chairman of the Commissioners to be one of the first of such appointed Commissioners and he shall hold office as a Commissioner from the new constitution date until 31st May 2007; and on and after the new constitution date shall be the chairman of the Commissioners.

(3)

Of the remaining first such appointed Commissioners—

(a)

three shall hold office from the new constitution date until 31st September 2005;

(b)

three shall hold office from the new constitution date until 31st September 2006;

(c)

three shall hold office from the new constitution date until 31st September 2007;

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