# Health and Care Act 2022, Paragraph 5: Non-executive members: tenure

Extent: E+W

(1) A person holds and vacates office as a non-executive member of the HSSIB in accordance with that person’s terms of appointment (subject to the following provisions of this paragraph).
(2) A person may at any time resign from office as a non-executive member by giving notice to the Secretary of State.
(3) The Secretary of State may at any time remove a person from office as a non-executive member on any of the following grounds—
(a) incapacity,
(b) misbehaviour, or
(c) failure to carry out the person’s duties as a non-executive member.
(4) The Secretary of State may suspend a person from office as a non-executive member if it appears to the Secretary of State that there are or may be grounds to remove the person from office under sub-paragraph (3).
(5) A person may be appointed as a non-executive member for an initial term of up to three years.
(6) A person who has been appointed as a non-executive member for an initial term may be re-appointed, but only for one further term of up to three years.
(7) The further term must begin at the end of the initial term.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2022/31/schedule/13/paragraph/5 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-care-act-2022/schedule-13/paragraph-5
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