Article 4 Terms of office of appointed and nominated members

Subject to the provisions of this article and article 7(4) and (5), the term of office of a person appointed or nominated to the General Council shall be for a period not exceeding four years.

Subject to paragraph (3) and article 7(4), a person who is, or has previously been, a member may be appointed or nominated as a member for a further term.

No person who has served as a member for an aggregate of at least eight years during the period of eleven years ending with the last occasion on which he left office (excluding in calculating that aggregate any time prior to the relevant day) shall be eligible, for a period of four years after leaving office, to be elected for a further term.

An appointed or nominated member may at any time resign his office by letter addressed to the President.

When an appointed or nominated member dies, resigns or otherwise ceases to be a member before completing his term of office, a person shall be appointed or nominated, as the case may be, to hold office in his place for a term not exceeding four years.