Regulation 38 Removal of the chair or the vice-chair from office

Subject to paragraph (2), the temporary governing body may remove the chair or vice chair from office.

A resolution to remove the chair or vice-chair from office shall not have effect unless the matter is specified as an item of business on the agenda for the meeting of the temporary governing body, of which notice has been given in accordance with regulation 43(4).

Before the temporary governing body resolve to remove the chair or vice-chair from office, the temporary governor proposing his removal shall at that meeting state his reasons for doing so and the chair or vice chair (as the case may be) shall be given the opportunity to make a statement in response, before withdrawing from the meeting.