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Regulation 5 Terms of membership

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(1)

Subject to the following paragraphs of this regulation, the terms of appointment of a member of a local access forum shall be determined by the appointing authority and notified to him in writing.

(2)

A member of a local access forum shall be appointed for not less than one and not more than three years.

(3)

A member of a local access forum may resign by notice in writing to the appointing authority which appointed him.

(4)

An appointing authority—

(a)

shall terminate the appointment of a member of a local access forum if they are satisfied that he has become a member of a district or county council or National Park authority and, as a result, regulation 4(2) is not complied with, and

(b)

may terminate the appointment of a member of a forum if—

(i)

without the consent of the appointing authority, he has been absent from all meetings of the forum during a period of one year, or

(ii)

he has failed to comply with regulation 6(7).

(5)

An appointing authority may re-appoint a person who ceases to be a member of a local access forum.