Article 4 Appointment and terms of office of first Commissioners

(1)

The first appointments under article 3(1)(a) above shall be made on, or as soon as reasonably practicable after, 15th October 2002.

(2)

The Commissioners shall appoint the person who is, at the date when they make the first appointments referred to in paragraph (1) above, the chairman of the Commissioners to be one of the first of such appointed Commissioners and he shall hold office as a Commissioner from the new constitution date until 31st October 2005; and on and after the new constitution date shall be the chairman of the Commissioners.

(3)

Of the remaining first such appointed Commissioners—

(a)

three shall hold office from the new constitution date until 31st October 2003;

(b)

three shall hold office from the new constitution date until 31st October 2004;

(c)

two shall hold office from the new constitution date until 31st October 2005;

as the Commissioners shall specify when they make each of those appointments.