Regulation 3 Resignation and removal of members

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

reg. 3 substituted by Common Services Agency (Membership and Procedure) Amendment 2025 reg. 2(4)
reg. 3(3)(a) word inserted by Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 (Consequential Modifications) 2011 Sch. 2 para. 13(c)(i)
reg. 3(4) word inserted by Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 (Consequential Modifications) 2011 Sch. 2 para. 13(c)(ii)

(1)

A member who desires to resign his membership shall give written intimation of his resignation to the Secretary of State.

(2)

If a member has not attended any meeting of the Committee or of any sub-committee of the committee throughout a period of six consecutive months, the Secretary of State shall, unless satisfied that his absence was due to illness or other reasonable cause, declare that his seat on the committee has become vacant and that person shall forthwith cease to be a member.

(3)

A member of the Committee being either—

(a)

a person who holds any paid appointment or office or other place of profit under a Board or the Secretary of State or the Agency and who is dismissed, removed or resigns from such appointment, office, or other place of profit; or

(b)

a person whose name is included in any list prepared under Part II of the Act, and whose name is withdrawn from the list on his own application,

shall, if the Secretary of State so directs, forthwith cease to be a member.

(4)

If a member of the Committee, who was at the time of his appointment also a member or officer of the Agency, of any Board or an officer of the Secretary of State, ceases to be such a member or officer he shall forthwith cease to be a member of the Committee.