Article 16 Limit on length of service as member of FTDC

A family justice may not serve as a member of a FTDC for more than a total of nine years.

A member of the FTDC shall be eligible for reappointment if, at the end of his most recent term of office, he will have served as a member of the FTDC for a period or periods totalling less than nine years.

If, on a date before the end of the period specified in rule 14(6) or (as the case may be) rules 15(2)(b), 18(6)(b) or 19(2)(b), a member will have served as a member of the FTDC for nine years that member’s term of office shall end on that date.