Article 5 Membership of the Authority

(1)

The Authority is to consist of 30 members.

(2)

Of those 30 members—

(a)

12 (the “council members”) must be members of relevant councils^f1 and must be appointed in accordance with paragraph (3);

(b)

16 (the “general members”) must be persons appointed by the MMO^f2, and must include at least one employee of the MMO; and

(c)

2 (the “additional members”) must be appointed in accordance with paragraph (4)^f3.

(3)

The number of council members to be appointed by each relevant council is as follows—

Relevant council	Number of members
Plymouth City Council	1
North Somerset District Council	1
Somerset County Council	1
Bristol City Council	1
Devon County Council	5
Torbay Council	1
South Gloucestershire Council	1
Gloucestershire County Council	1

(4)

One additional member is to be appointed by the Environment Agency and the other is to be appointed by Natural England.

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