Article 7 Limitations

The appointing body shall not appoint as a Member a person who, immediately before appointment, has served three consecutive terms of office unless that person is the Chair or Deputy Chair or falls subject to the terms of article 7(3) below.

A Chair or Deputy Chair shall not be eligible for reappointment as a Member where, immediately before appointment, that person has held office as a Member for four consecutive terms.

Where a person is an Existing Member, that person shall not be eligible for reappointment as a Member where, immediately before appointment, that person has held office as a Member for four consecutive terms.

No employee of the Board shall be eligible for appointment as a Member except under articles 4(1)(c) and (d).

No person shall be capable of acting as a Member without having signed and delivered to the Chief Executive a declaration in the terms set out in Schedule 3 to this Order.