Article 5 Membership of the Authority

(1)

The Authority is to consist of 21 members.

(2)

Of those 21 members—

(a)

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

(b)

12 (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
Lincolnshire County Council	2
Norfolk County Council	3
Suffolk County Council	2

(4)

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

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